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The heroine's socioeconomic position and much of her character were determined by real estate.

Cash4Lead — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:25:38 -0800

For his 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence, about a man who obsessively collects objects associated with his beloved and eventually creates a museum of those objects in his beloved's old house, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has built a museum in a house in Istanbul containing the objects mentioned in the novel, including a half-eaten ice cream cone (made of plastic) and 4,213 cigarette stubs, complete with lipstick and ice cream stains. Elif Batuman reports on how the museum, which opened in April, came to be.

By: bgribble

bgribble — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:51:02 -0800

As captured in song by Daniel Johnston

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:37:17 -0800

NYT article on the museum, with accompanying slideshow.

By: deadbilly

deadbilly — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:05:39 -0800

Apparently, it costs more to go if you're not Turkish (scroll down just a bit)

By: ovvl

ovvl — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:43:27 -0800

Elif Batuman is my favourite essayist these days.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:23:22 -0800

ovvl, Do you read her surreal twitter feed?