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Alex Wright is a Brooklyn-based writer, researcher, and designer whose most recent book is Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rouges, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper. His previous books include Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age and Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, which was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a penetrating and highly entertaining meditation on our information age and its historical roots."

Alex's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Believer, Columbia Journalism Review, Public Domain Review, Big Think, Salon.com, The Wilson Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, and Harvard Magazine, among others.

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	Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages 3.76 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age 3.79 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Poetry gave way to prose.”
― Alex Wright, Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper

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“Dewey was obsessed with efficiency. He even changed his name from “Melville” to “Melvil” as a time-saving gesture and briefly even changed his last name to “Dui.”
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