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The slow mind needs a notebook
And the neglected body needs an accomplice
Oct 1 • 
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September 2025

Sure, I'll die on that hill
The vitality and hospitality of exaggeration
Sep 3 • 
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July 2025

Why write things down?
On diary keeping
Jul 30 • 
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In praise of old fictions
You already belong to your time
Jul 9 • 
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Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits
Lydia Davis, Essays One
Jul 7 • 
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June 2025

It's not pretentious to love great art
Escape the slop of monoculture
Jun 26 • 
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Wisdom shall not come from the internet
We need to breathe on people and hold books in our hands
Jun 13 • 
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No idea comes from nothing
Viennese visions, and being a woman in an art museum
Jun 3 • 
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May 2025

Against antiseptic American interiors
Popular design is so boring and so afraid of death
May 14 • 
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It's the bad stuff that goes viral
And other mild provocations
May 6 • 
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April 2025

The good mood of the soul
Which is so easily murdered by Zoom
Apr 30 • 
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The lost desire for children
A new dark cultural fable
Apr 17 • 
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