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Do you have an ereader but miss the look and feel of a gorgeous hardcover book?  Do you want people to think you’re all about print when in fact you are riding the digital wave?  Then you simply must get this incredible Book sleeve for your iPad, Macbook or Kindle.  (Via Peter Knox’s tumblr blog)

“Are things getting worse for women in publishing?” The Guardian asks, and while the article focuses on the UK, it also touches on the state of affairs in the U.S. What both situations share is a lack of female representation at the executive level, based partly on “a generation of women retiring and the amalgamation of publishing houses, which has left fewer c-circle jobs to compete for.” Oh, and sexism.

“Without any clear and agreed upon sense for what to be aiming at in a life, people may experience the paralyzing type of indecision depicted by T.S. Eliot in his famously vacillating character Prufrock; or they may feel, like the characters in a Samuel Beckett play, as though they are continuously waiting for something to become clear… or they may feel the kind of “stomach level sadness” that David Foster Wallace described…” Sean D. Kelly navigates past nihilism for the New York Times.

Recommended Reading: Oliver Burkeman on a new group of optimistic thinkers.