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In Praise of the Second Draft
The first draft is for finding out what you think. The second is for the reader, and it is where most of the writing actually happens.
What the Margins Know
A secondhand book with notes in it is two books at once. On the private conversations readers leave for strangers.
Rereading Middlemarch at Forty
At twenty I read George Eliot for Dorothea. At forty I read it for everyone else in town, and found a better book.
Walden, Without the Cabin
Thoreau is easy to mock and harder to dismiss. What Walden still offers a reader with a mortgage and no pond.
A Week Without the Map App
Seven days of getting around a familiar city with a folded paper map, and what turned out to be missing from my head.
Notes from the Allotment, October
The last beans, the first frost warning, and the satisfaction of putting a garden to bed properly.
How We Set Type for the Screen
Line length, leading and a little restraint: the handful of typographic decisions behind this journal.
The Goldberg Variations, Thirty Ways
An aria, thirty variations and the aria again. Why Bach’s most patient work rewards the most patient listening.
The Small Web Is Still Here
Personal sites, blogrolls and newsletters never went away. A short guide to finding the corners of the internet built by people, not platforms.