TEXT!

Do Ho Suh

One of my favourite contemporary artists is Do Ho Suh (b.

Oct 5 • 

Adam Smyth

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Film?

A quick invitation.

Oct 2 • 

Adam Smyth

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September 2025

Cutting Big Books

Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1747-8), is a novel of letters that tells the disturbing story of Clarissa Harlowe’s…

Sep 29 • 

Adam Smyth

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A Day in the Life

[This, below, was my first ever post on TEXT!

Sep 22 • 

Adam Smyth

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Books Going Wrong

My friend Lottie sent me a copy of Helen Garner’s collected diaries, How to End a Story, for my birthday.

Sep 19 • 

Adam Smyth

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How to learn

I was going to say that 2025 has so far been a year of highs and lows, but it’s probably more accurate (because things don’t separate out into simply…

Sep 5 • 

Adam Smyth

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August 2025

August reading

In August, I’ve been mainly reading.

Aug 31 • 

Adam Smyth

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5 August 2025

The taxi arrives ten minutes late at 5.40am.

Aug 14 • 

Adam Smyth

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July 2025

What I was doing at 5.35pm every day from 5th January to 18th July 2025

Sunday 5 Jan

Jul 19 • 

Adam Smyth

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June 2025

Please select ...

My favourite textual form may well be the list of hyper-specific categories organised alphabetically.

Jun 17 • 

Adam Smyth

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May 2025

Novel!

With my friend Chloë Houston, I’ve written a novel and it’s about to be published.

May 17 • 

Adam Smyth

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April 2025

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.

Apr 21 • 

Adam Smyth

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