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How to Become an Intellectual is at once a
how-to manual and a glib walk through several thousand years of science and culture, complete with cameo appearances by everyone from Plato and Socrates to Freud and Marie Curie.
Available April 2012 in bookstores, as well as
on-line.
In The University of Chicago Magazine
March 13, 2012
The University of Chicago Magazine’s March/April issue features some choice excerpts from three chapters/maxims: cultivating a few choice eccentricities (Maxim 3), quoting Shakespeare sparingly (Maxim 16), and the best places to pick up an intellectual date (Maxim 61). It also features a nifty image of a lobster, in reference to the French essayist and poet Gérard de Nerval walking around town with a pet lobster on a leash (some eccentricities have the side benefit of also being delicious).
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