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Vince Aletti’s latest book, The Drawer, is a visible diary that studies the variability and complexity of desire, memory, and collective histories Art critic and curator Vince Aletti could be probably the most prolific collectors of print ephemera to have ever lived. What began in boyhood as a seemingly innocent habit of tearing pages from physique magazines to maintain under his mattress has matured into an insatiable appetite for provocative print.  “Completely unaware of what it said about me, I subscribed to House & Garden once I was in middle school,” says Aletti. “I used to be each pretentious and clueless and like so many queer kids, I spent most of my free time in my...