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Their first encounters, like those of Malaparte’s other early American readers, came via pulpy Signet paperbacks in the nineteen-fifties.—
Thomas Meaney,
New Yorker,
2 July 2025 -
Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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Tony Visconti gave input on the remasters and contributes to the hardback book of unseen notes, drawings, and handwritten lyrics that accompanies the physical box sets.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
9 July 2025
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Best E-reader Amazon Kindle (2024) $110 at Amazon Nothing is more decadent for a beach day than a good book, but packing paperbacks or hardbacks just isn’t practical for me.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
28 May 2025
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
Jessica Wapner,
Scientific American,
16 Nov. 2020
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
Fred Turner,
Harper's magazine,
10 Jan. 2019
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Filling the gaps is a mishmash of biographies, fiction of all sorts, and tomes on music, sports, and politics.—
Jack Barlow,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2025
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His new 432-page tome features more than 2,100 full-color photographs, assembled with the care and attention to detail of a true Rolex aesthete.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
26 May 2025
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