Bookish Diversions: The Bits We Usually Ignore

Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes—and How I Handled Them In My New Book, ‘The Idea Machine’

When we think about a book, we usually focus on the primary text. But books have all sorts of ancillary stuff going on in the front, the back, and the margins. Sometimes we pay attention to it, other times not. But there are occasionally treasures in the bits we ignore.

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