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Swamp Man
This one is kind of a double-library theft The librarian at the high school I teach at keeps a pile of books from the public library system that are mistakenly returned to our school library. I...
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Rear Window
I promise I’ll return this one. This book makes a great introduction to film writing, although I’m not sure it’s necessarily for film fans — more of a theory book, really. This book is from my uncle’s...
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Tim Hecker — Harmony in Ultraviolet
Yes yes yes. I know I know I know. It’s not a book. It’s an album of music. But see now so and yes–it’s just so beautiful. It’s the best “reading music” I’ve come across in a long time. And, in keeping...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I procured this from my cousin’s closet. My cousin Tripp is ten years older than me; he was in college at the time and I was staying with my aunt and uncle over the summer, in his old bedroom. I’m...
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Bob Dylan
Anthony Scaduto’s Bob Dylan:A Biography (1972?); another one from my cousin’s closet, part of the same cache that included Fear and Loathing. This would have been in the very early 1990s. I had...
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Microserfs
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland; loaned out, never to be returned. I remember this book as being relatively entertaining. I mostly recall the design of the book–very cool, playful, and ahead of its time....
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Riddley Walker–Russell Hoban
I never gave Riddley Walker back to Patrick Tilford (aka TLFRD). A few years ago I loaned it to a student who never returned it. Said student never returned Dune, or The Left Hand of Darkness, or...
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Graham Greene and Donnie Darko
The Portable Graham Greene, ed. Philip Stratford. I haven’t read a single story in this beautiful Viking Portable Library edition, save “The Destructors,” (full text here) (sorry, the page is no...
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The Shins — Wincing The Night Away
AUDIOKLEPT (SPECIAL EDITION) Not a book, but nonetheless obtained by extra-legal means. Piracy baby! SubPop is set to drop The Shins’ third album Wincing The Night Away in January of 2007, but the...
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The Audioklept Special Edition
All the big indie records of 2006: One sentence reviews. Part One. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy–The Letting Go: Who knew he had another record this good in him? Neko Case–Fox Confessor Brings the Flood: “Star...
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Charles Bukowski
I must have been in the 1oth or 11th grade when I borrowed three Charles Bukowski novels from M***ael J***ings. These were: Women, easily my favorite and Bukowski’s best. I didn’t return this one. The...
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A Modern Euphemism Which Softens the Ugly Word Book-thief
A definition of “biblioklept,” from William S. Walsh’s strange and wonderful 1909 ‘cyclopedia, Handy-book of Literary Curiosities: Biblioklept, a modern euphemism which softens the ugly word book-thief...
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Heroes of 2010 — Those Guys Who Stole Jonathan Franzen’s Glasses
On October 4th of this year, right in the midst of Franzen-mania (and Franzenfreude), two ballsy Londoners jacked Jonathan Franzen’s signature spectacles during a Hyde Park bookstore launch party for...
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Francis Ford Coppola, Artist, Thief
Tagged: Art, Film, Francis Ford Coppola, Movies, theft
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“Making Pictures Is How I Talk to the World”— Dmitry Samarov Talks to...
Henri by Dmitry Samarov Dmitry Samarov is an artist and writer who lives and works in Chicago. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993, Dmitry drove cabs for twelve...
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Plagiarism
The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990 when thieves stole 13 pieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Collectively worth $300 million. $400 million. At...
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A Mortally Wounded Brigand Quenches His Thirst — Eugene Delacroix
Tagged: Art, Eugène Delacroix, theft, thieves
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Robert Louis Stevenson on the Ten Commandments
From Lay Morals (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson But, I may be told, we teach the ten commandments, where a world of morals lies condensed, the very pith and epitome of all ethics and religion; and a...
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