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Anthony Metivier Author Of The Victorious Mind: How to Master Memory, Meditation and Mental Well-Being

From Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Author Mnemonics enthusiast Philosophy fanatic Occasional magician Memory expert Musician of sorts

Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Anthony Metivier Why Anthony loves this book

Later tonight I'm publishing a video review of it and will have a written blog post.

Could I write a summary to answer this question later and link to the fuller discussion?

By Tony Judt ,

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1 author picked The Memory Chalet as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck.

In 2008, historian Tony Judt learnt that he was suffering from a disease that would eventually trap his extraordinary mind in a declining and immobile body. At night, sleepless in his motionless state, he revisited the past in an effort to keep himself sane, and his dictated essays form a memoir unlike…


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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

Book cover of The Xenotext

Anthony Metivier Author Of The Victorious Mind: How to Master Memory, Meditation and Mental Well-Being

From Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Mnemonics enthusiast Philosophy fanatic Occasional magician Memory expert Musician of sorts

Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Anthony Metivier Why Anthony loves this book

On top of the excellent wordsmithing, the concept and the execution of encoding poetry into a deathless bacterium in the hopes of having a human composition survive the death of our sun is one of the most interesting and exhilarating projects ever.

By Christian Bök ,

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1 author picked The Xenotext as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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"Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Boek has realized, it all comes down to the durability of your materials."-The Guardian

Internationally best-selling poet Christian Boek has spent more than ten years writing what promises to be the first example of "living poetry." After successfully demonstrating his concept in a colony of E. coli, Boek is on the verge of enciphering a beautiful, anomalous poem into the genome of an unkillable bacterium (Deinococcus radiodurans), which can,…


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