pickings

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Take, for example, Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings, a blog that ferrets out nuggets of intellectual gold from the works of such titans as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franz Kafka, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, and Susan Sontag.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2019

Or do you pick books specifically with Brain Pickings in mind?

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019

If you’ve never visited Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings website, you’re in for more than a treat.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018

Maria Popova, who curates the popular Brain Pickings blog by reading 12-15 books a week, said “doggedness.”

From Time • Jun. 18, 2014

"Pickings are always a little lean on the first few beats, but you can work some fairly well."

From Police Your Planet by Del Rey, Lester