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Exquisite Creatures: The Insect Art of Christopher Marley
2006 CALENDAR GUIDE Plainly put, Christopher Marley uses dead bugs to make art. The result is kaleidoscopic and engrossing. It will remind you of hunkering in the grass as a kid, watching beetles trundle along.
$14 at Pomegranate Communications | Buy
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Undersea 2006 Calendar
2006 CALENDAR GUIDE Bring a little bit of ocean to your landlocked life. This recycled cardstock calendar, printed with soy-based inks, includes a make-your-own undersea mobile kit.
$16 at fred flare | Buy
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Japanese Woodblocks
2006 CALENDAR GUIDE Spare, bright woodblock prints offer inspiration for artistic sorts. When the year’s over, you can use the colorful pages to wrap small presents or make gift cards.
$13 at All Posters | Buy
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Haute Couture 2006
2006 CALENDAR GUIDE So rare to come across a fashion calendar that doesn’t irritate me. This one features Ren’e Gruau’s illustrations, which are lively but cultivated. The girls inside are living the good life, and there’s no harm in a monthly dose of aspiration.
$13 at Kate’s Paperie | Buy
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Big Hair 2006 Wall Calendar
2006 CALENDAR GUIDE Americans like things big: big cars, big portions, big ideas, big hair. If you need a patriotic calendar to accentuate the interior of your monster truck, this baby’s a keeper. The pages are laminated with Aqua Net.
$13 at Calendars.com | Buy
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Yoshitomo Nara 2006 Wall Calendar
2006 CALENDAR GUIDE Yoshitomo Nara’s willful, serene, and angry little girls are charming as ever. This would make an ideal play-date or nursery calendar for punk-rock mums and pops.
$13 at Chronicle Books | Buy
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Dirty Found Magazine #1
STOCKING STUFFERS How we love our indie porn. Found Magazine has been collecting sexy, pervy, lewd found items since the magazine’s inception. They finally compiled all of them in Dirty Found. Get your unairbrushed, non-corporate, regular joe sex right here.
$10 at Atomic Books | Buy
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2006 Zagat Movie Guide
The compact Zagat Movie Guide covers nearly 1,300 movies and has dozens of indexes that let him search by genre, decade, Oscar nominations, and more. Package it with a gift certificate for a month of unlimited mail-order movie rentals ($18 from Netflix) and some Raisinettes.
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Atlas Maior
You can’t even wrench the laminated Streetwise map away from him, so you know he’ll love this. Prepare yourself for weeks of, “Honey, come check this out!” First published in 1665, Atlas Maior was created by renowned cartographer Joan Blaeu, and is considered the most comprehensive baroque atlas. It covers Arctica, Europe, Africa, Asia, and America, and stands as a master work in mapmaking. This hardcover copy was created from the National Library of Vienna’s complete, colored, gold-heightened copy, and features an introduction by Peter van der Krogt that offers in-depth descriptions of the maps.
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Oprah’s 20th Anniversary DVD Collection
A six-disc collection celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Oprah Winfrey Show. The set contains new footage and interviews with Oprah about her experiences on the show. One-hundred percent of profits go to Oprah’s Angel Network. (Oprah personally covers the administrative costs of the Angel Network so that 100% of all funds raised go to charity programs.)
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Sometimes Small Statements Make a Big Difference
In 2003, Downtown for Democracy brought together fourteen writers to read original works as a fundraiser for Democratic and progressive candidates. This unbound, boxed edition of those works is one of only 250 that exist, and it features all fourteen pieces hand-signed by the writers. It contains original fiction by Paul Auster, Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, Gary Indiana, Jhumpa Lahiri, Susan Sontag, and Colson Whitehead, as well an introduction by Jonathan Safran Foer, a poem by Joyce Carol Oates, and a scene from a new play by Wendy Wasserstein.
$250 at Downtown for Democracy | Buy
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Pocket Penguins Boxed Set
ON SALE Penguin is celebrating its 70th birthday with this boxed set of Pocket Penguins. The collection includes works by, well, seventy different authors, including: Nick Hornby, Albert Camus, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Safran Foer, Homer, Paul Theroux, Anais Nin, Anne Frank, James Kelman, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Sigmund Freud, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, Dave Eggers, John Steinbeck and Alain de Botton. (While the sale lasts, your discount will be taken at checkout.)
(Regularly $184. Price converted from pounds.)
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The Next 1,000 Years Calendar
Nikki McClure’s annual calendar is out! We’ve listed her work before, so her quirky paper-cut designs may look familiar. Why buy yet another ugly “quote of the day” calendar for your office, when you could treat yourself to something this lovely?
(12" x 12")
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McSweeny’s Book Release Club
McSweeny’s makes lovely books that feel good in your hands and on your brain. Now you can get ten books just as they roll of the presses for only $10 each. Among them, you’ll find A Book of Noisy Outlaws, Evil Marauders, and Some Other Things, a collection of childrens stories from Nick Hornby, Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, George Saunders, Kelly Link, Jon Scieskza, and others. You also get The Best of McSweeneys Vol. 1, The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Other Writers, A Field Guide to Couples’ Sleeping Positions and Their Meanings, and more. That’s nearly a year of reading for your smartest and most beloved friend. Or you can hoard them for yourself, gather them in your arms, and whisper to them in the night as you inhale their pulpy, innocent, printed sweetness. OK, that’s just me.
$100 at McSweeny's | Buy
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Bill’s Open Kitchen
Buy this. You will love it. It’s near impossible to find a cookbook that isn’t packed with recipies calling for butter, bacon, and heavy cream. Many of the options in Bill’s Open Kitchen are delicious, diet friendly, and quick. What’s more, every single recipe comes with a lovely photo of the finished product, so you know in advance what looks appealing.
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A Home at the End of the World
by Michael Cunningham A few excerpts: “I was my father’s daughter. i wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn’t learn to train our desires in one direction or another, we were likely to end up with nothing.” “He had big square hands and face blank and earnest as a shovel.” “I tried to make myself stop caring about what I looked like. As she started in the with scissors, I reminded myself that our lives are made of changes we can’t control. Letting little things happen is good practice.” “Woodstock is what towns were supposed to become before the old future got sidetracked and a new one took its place… I appreciate the kindness of its quiet streets and the people’s cheerful determination to live in ways that are mainly beside the point.”
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda An excerpt from one of my favorite poems, “Tonight I Can Write” “I no longer love her, that’s certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing. Another’s. She will be another’s. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes. I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her.
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Martha Stewart Living or Books
Martha is free, and crafty as ever. Her magazine, Martha Stewart Living, is full of projects worth ripping out and saving, whether your mom loves to garden, cook, collect, or create. If mom already has a subscription, consider getting her a compilation book like Good Things or Good Things For Organizing. She’ll be dusting the plant leaves in no time.
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Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer Please read this book, it’s exceptionally satisfying. An excerpt: “She always saw through him, as if he were just another window. She always felt that she knew everything about him, that could be known-not that he was simple, but that he was knowable, like a list of errands, like an encyclopedia. He had a birthmark on the third toe of his left foot. He wasn’t able to urinate if someone could hear him. He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious–so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed made from cucumbers, which were only good enough. He hadn’t heard of Shakespeare, but Hamlet sounded familiar. He liked making love from behind. That, he thought, was about as nice as it gets. He had never kissed anyone besides his mother and her… He had never seen another man naked, and so had no idea if his body was normal. The word “butterfly” made him blush, although he didn’t know why… He admired magicians more after learning the secrets of their tricks.”
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