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Joel J Miller's avatar

Those first two sounds fantastic. Reminds me of Miles Harvey’s “The Island of Lost Maps,” a true-crime story about a map thief, and Karl Sabbagh’s “A Rum Affair: A True Story Of Botanical Fraud,” in which a guy convinces the world a rare sedge grows where it doesn’t. The obsession language above triggered the memory. People’s obsessions open up whole worlds for themselves, and writers illuminating those obsessions open up whole worlds for us readers—worlds we can hardly imagine existing before cracking the cover.

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Cassie Gutman's avatar

LOVE The Feather Thief! Who knew I could ever care so much about fly ties?!

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