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How are books your best friends?

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Recently, reading a Mary Oliver essay collection, I stumbled across a piece called "My Friend Walt Whitman." In it, she admits she had merely a few friends as a child in 1950s Ohio, and they were all dead. They were her favorite books. Defiantly, she insists that, while inanimate, they were true friends. read more

Call it a two-person book club, call it bonding over literature — the point is that you’re sharing something amazing with your best friend. You can really read almost anything with your bestie: crime noir, celebrity memoirs, investigative journalism that explores juicing culture. read more

It's the friends who were with you when you were children, negotiating the world around you for the first time. And they're the ones who were with you with your first crushes in high school, as you escaped your family into college, and through the jobs and boyfriends and struggles of your 20s. read more

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