December 2011
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NY Times Room for Debate: "Why We Collect Stuff" →
With pieces by Randy Frost, co-author of Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things; Philipp Blom, author of To Have and to Hold; as well as collectors of cars, dolls, and coins…  No comments from me because I’m in Costa Rica and need to get my sunscreen on and head to the beach…  Happy New Year! 
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WatchWatch
Giorgio Manganelli: Discourse on the difficulty of communicating with the dead, a film by Nicolas Tripet. (One of my dissertation chapters is about Manganelli… I’ll have a lot more to say about this amazing film later, and I think I’ll include it on the syllabus for a course I’m teaching next semester, but for now… Back to the dissertation…) 
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Some New Titles
    With the exception of The Hoarding Handbook, I haven’t read them yet. I’ll get to them over winter break, and if appropriate I may add some or all of them to the syllabus of a course I’m teaching in Comparative Literature in the Spring… Also, Robin Zasio of Hoarders/Tanya Harding lookalike fame, has a new book entitled The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier,...
Dec 1st
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