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Maria Popova

@brainpicker

Maria Popova is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings, an inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness.

Select, Shape, Celebrate

The critic’s calling is to elevate the good and ignore the bad
March 12, 2013
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