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Top 5 Reads from Arts & Letters Daily [View this email in your browser]( Arts & Letters Daily began in 1998 in the belief that the internet could be a vehicle for meaningful intellectual exchange. If you like what we’re doing, please [support us.]( [A New Class of Intellectuals]( Asked about his transformation from Oxford don to thought leader, Niall Ferguson was blunt: “I did it all for the money.” He's not alone. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cockroaches, Crummy Days, Lousy Lakes]( For Grace Paley, every part of life was worthy of literary attention. There was beauty in banality. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Art of the Book]( Is a tome three feet wide by two feet high a book? What about one with an embedded digital clock? Or a suitcase filled with lithographs? --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Brief Rise of 'Prince Poo']( How the Enlightenment's sensory awakening reached its apex (or nadir) during a French craze for garments the color of baby poop. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Life of a Ghostwriter]( Don't argue with clients, however repulsive. And you'll probably receive no recognition — which may be a good thing. Copyright © 2017 Arts and Letters Daily, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at Our mailing address is: Arts and Letters Daily 1255 Twenty-Third St, N.W.washington, DC 20037 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](