Why read Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder?

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Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall…

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Jonathan Lackman

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When this book appeared in 1995, devoted to what was probably one of the least visited museums in Los Angeles, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, I knew it was worth a try, given that Weschler was someone I'd already sent a rare fan letter to.

I wasn’t disappointed. He’s the perfect guide for this exquisite project (which I had to make a pilgrimage to straight away) that at first blush seems to be a recherché natural-history museum but turns out to be a fascinating provocation that upended my notions of how we decide what is actually…

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