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A Year in Reading: Lillian Li

This was the year I found out has kept a list of every book he’s read since he was 28 years old. You can see them on his , under “About Art,” in the sub-menu “Library,” and even then you don’t get to the books themselves, but rather a list of lists arranged as “Book List for 1968-1978,” “Book List for 1979-1983,” and on through the unevenly distributed decades. I’m a big fan of this bad web design because

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