A study with the door left open.
A place for my boring paragraphs and thoughts, and a few other things. Maybe some academic work too, if I ever get around to it.
Recent writing
All 8 →On Marginalia, or Reading with a Pencil
Why the margins of a book are the most honest record of reading we have, and what a website could learn from them.
EssayA small rule for footnotes
If a footnote would make sense read aloud in the middle of the sentence, it is not a footnote.
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On the reading desk
Reading notes: The Mushroom at the End of the World
Notes on Anna Tsing's book about matsutake, precarity, and the art of noticing.
Reading noteReading notes: Essays in Idleness
Kenkō's fourteenth-century miscellany, read slowly over one spring.
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