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They can represent a slice of history or become a tangible tribute to an artists vision brought to life

When I think of the ephemeral work Im doing—building a collection of books that have little if any published record—I know I should feel defeated.Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize By The Paris Review September 23.

it is especially gratifying to award the Honey Wax Prize to a collector who has applied repeatedly.the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Having the prize deadline made me sit down and think about what were the most interesting things Id found each year.from an 1849 pamphlet chronicling the discovery of Miss Mitchells Comet to Mitchells 1860 Atlantic Monthly piece on fellow scientist Mary Somerville to copies of key books found in Mitchells library: The excitement for me in collecting these is to see Maria Mitchell starting to interact with her legacy during her own lifetime.

What I found were periods of reexploration and reevaluation of Maria Mitchell after her life in both academic and artistic ways.an astrophysicist and postdoc at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado.

a collection of primary sources documenting the experience of American military death and grief through memoirs.

was to expand the popular perception of who book collectors are (and can be) by highlighting original collections built by young women.while the MacBook is a full $1.

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