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Timely for the season, peruse all of LitHub’s “40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time”. Can you think of more and better? Thanks, Reader B!

Introverts, ambiverts and clumsy conversationalists like myself might find these conversational silence cards a tempting handout.

A story on the Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art. Pairs well with a typeface ready to make a splash: pissjar sans. I’m (kind of) resisting a steady stream of bad puns here.

Inside the Weird and Wonderful World of Pet Portraits

“Unseen for decades and salvaged by a junk dealer in the 1960s from a trash heap outside a house in Texas, his entire body of work would later go on to marvel the intellectual world. But during his lifetime, Charles Dellschau had only been known as the grouchy local butcher.” → Found in a Junk Shop: Secrets of an Undiscovered Visionary Artist

► disillusionment of 10 point font → “Animated on a Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe typewriter” (just like one of mine).

Rhode Island-based artist Jessica Rosner uses kitchen gloves to offer a look at James Joyce’s Ulysses unlike any other. Thanks, Reader C.!