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Maria Popova: Books are the Original Internet
Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born writer, blogger, literary and cultural
critic living in Brooklyn, New York. She writes Brain Pickings, a blog
she calls "my one-woman labor of love." In this interview by Oscar
Schwartz, she says "Books are the original internet." Schwarts calls her
"switched on, irresistibly articulate, fully engaged...She talks about
complex ideas in a way that transforms them into something I want to
talk about with my friends. She makes big concepts relevant."
