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    Notes, August

    Four things from a month of not writing much: a misprint, a cheap notebook, a quiet chapter, and a letter that took nine days.

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    The Unhurried Newsletter

    A note on writing to a schedule you set yourself, and why the best newsletters read like letters, not broadcasts.

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    The Commonplace Book, Revisited

    Before there were note-taking apps there were commonplace books, and the old method still beats most of the new ones.

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    Marginalia and Other Small Rebellions

    In praise of writing in books, underlining badly, and arguing with authors who cannot argue back.