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GET LIT (ALL WEEK LONG): Win a copy of Kate Bingaman-Burt's Obsessive Consumption

POSTED: Monday, June 21, 2010, 2:00 PM

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.

Princeton Architectural Press, 197 pp., $19.95, May 1

Happy Monday morning, BQTWers! Our giveaway bonanza continues with Kate Bingaman-Burt's hugely popular Obsessive Consumption, which I wrote about in this week's Kaleidoscope. Here's the scoop:

Kate Bingaman-Burt's blog-to-book Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? (Princeton Architectural Press, May 1) has gotten shouts everywhere from DIY microblogs to The New York Times Magazine. It's her daily drawings of purchases — everything from a new iPad (June 8, 2010) to a buck's worth of espresso beans (April 22) — that draws such vastly different crowds to this honest take on consumer culture. So what'd Bingaman-Burt sketch the day her book was published? A $2.99 jar of tamarind concentrate. Way to celebrate, Kate.

To win a copy of Obsessive Consumption, answer the following trivia question:

On what date did Kate Bingaman-Burt begin her series of daily drawings?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Obsessive Consumption" in the subject line. Visit Critical Mass later today for giveaways of The Promise and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. [UPDATE, 4:25 p.m.]: Congratulations to Critical Mass reader Rose! She was the first to guess right, that Bingaman-Burt's first daily drawing came in on Feb. 5, 2006.

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