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With my friend Chloë Houston, I’ve written a novel and it’s about to be published.
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5.35pm (continued)
I like Philippe Lejeune on the tricky task of defining the diary: ‘a series of dated traces [série de traces datées] … Discontinuous.
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Repeating Names
A little while ago I was reading about the late 18th-century English clergyman, biographer and antiquary, Mark Noble (1754-1827), author of several…
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The Book Makers - paperback
The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives is out in UK paperback in April.
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5.35pm photos
In a post last week, I recorded what I doing at 5.35pm on each day of January 2025 — one sentence per day.
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5.35pm
There are many ways to track experience in writing, and I’m a fan of the various forms that diaries, or proto-diaries, or sort-of-diaries, can take…
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Categories (filing cabinets; book shelves)
On my way to the reading room in the National Archives in Kew, I see a set of filing cabinets that carry headings of implausible exactness.
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