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Uncle Books asks what we can mean when we speak of quality...and what that can mean with respect to the possibility of canon creation...
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From a garment tag from an outlet store used as a makeshift bookmark, Uncle Books retraces the history of our cult-like obsession with low prices via outlet stores and begins to attempt to convince us of the quality of the term “quality”.
In this episode from the En Route Institute’s “Found in Books” series, Uncle Books talks about how Hollywood—his place of birth—defied its reputation by being one of the literary hubs of Los Angeles at that time, and how the memory of Hollywood as village is nearly as fragile as the Pickwick bookmark under examination. The actual bookmark may be viewed by going to our website, enrouteinstitute.com