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“My dismay at the clutter on my desk is offset by my zest for the hunt among my papers.  At an age when I should be putting my house in order, I keep accumulating bits of information, not for any particular reason and in spite of the absurdity, because I was born curious and don’t know how to stop.” Stanley Kunitz, “Seed, Corn and Windfall” from Next to Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)

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It’s hard to believe another year is coming to a close. Looking back, it’s been another excellent year for new Star Wars books — eight High Republic books, several art and reference books, and nearly a dozen other new reads spanning the Star Wars timeline and the Essential Legends Collection. But there are two reference books and a bunch of single-issue comics and collections still to come in December. Find the full list below, and let me know which ones you’re most looking forward to in the comments!

I just want to get it out there that the Old Republic era is my favorite era. We haven’t had a film or show centered around The Old Republic yet but there are several games and books dedicated to this Jedi vs. Sith war-time. The Old Republic is about 3 to 4 thousand years before A New Hope and expertly lays the groundwork for the dawn of the High Republic to its eventual demise and overthrow by the Empire.

Walt Disney World, Florida $4,809-$5,999 for 1-4 guests 40 hours across two days and nights Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is a real world experience set in a 100 room hotel designed to look like a spaceship. Over the course of 40 hours, players pick sides and take on missions from spies, smugglers, and soldiers. While missions are presented as messages in the game’s Datapad app, their objectives all exist in the real world, like tracking down contraband supplies in the ship’s cargo hold or rewiring part of the engineering bay.

Recently, I received a push notification from Starbucks — because I have and occasionally use the Starbucks app, although most of the time I brew my own coffee at home, taking it to go, when necessary, in my trusty Zojurishi travel mug — notifying me that there is a new line of drinks available: Starbucks Oleato. I briefly wondered how this was pronounced. Oh-Lee-Toh? But a quick investigation into the matter revealed that the drinks were so named because of the inclusion of olive oil, leading me to believe that it would be pronounced more like Oh-li-ah-toh.

Stardust seems to come and go from streaming services, just as it comes and goes from peoples’ cinematic consciousness. No, not the flop Jackie Jormp-Jomp-adjacent David Bowie biopic that failed to get approval from Bowie’s estate for any of his songs; the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 1999 fantasy novel. I occasionally catch it referenced online and then won’t see it again for months. Like, someone might say, “Stardust!” and another person will go, “Hey, I love that movie!

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A few days ago I re-read the book of Lenin's final years’ speeches and letters. The book covers the years 1922 and 1923 (Lenin died in January 1924). I grabbed the book simply because I saw it on my bookshelf and having read it probably twenty years ago I could not remember exactly what was there, and thought, as I was proof-reading the section on inequality in socialism in my forthcoming “Visions of inequality”, that there could be something in the Lenin book that might be relevant for my chapter.