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• If literary characters were lifestyle bloggers. Subscribe me to Becky Sharp’s blog, please.

• Why boys love Jane Austen. “For all the solidity and uprightness, her technique is all about slyness. Austen has it both ways.”

• What it’s like to live in a $95 million penthouse 1,396 feet above New York City. THAT VIEW.

Design in the age of internet comments. “They’re fighting about toile—that’s not normal.”

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