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077: On Writing Letters
a letter to a soldier, Nina Stibbe's "Love, Nina," chat groups as an epistolary form, letters as evidence of human connection + links to Charlie…
Feb 11
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076: Leave the Raft Behind
On volcanoes, Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, life-rafts, and the vast gap between dreams and reality
Jan 21
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The centerline of this particular weekend was survival
An excerpt from Courtney Cook's book-in-progress
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Jun 17, 2023
075: Maeslantkering
a day trip with friends, a Dutch storm surge barriers, and a passing reference to Marlow Granados's novel, "Happy Hour"
Apr 29, 2023
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074: let go, let fly, forget
cumulonimbus clouds v. small aircraft, childhood best friends, leaving a job + a post-Oscar link and a killer TBR stack + read to the end for a photo of…
Mar 19, 2023
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073: wrestling with the ambivalent angels of our future
AI, cyborgs, Donna Harraway, and Blade Runner
Feb 19, 2023
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072: without snow, there’s a neverness about the cold
thesauruses, the generosity of tagging in OpenStreetMap, sitting in the sunlight
Feb 5, 2023
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071: the puzzlement in the play is the point
steganography, Hamlet and Infinite Jest, plane trees in Ghent + some really distressing work meetings
Jan 22, 2023
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070: generations of men with tobacco in their beards squinting at the bridges of Königsberg
isomorphisms, rhodonea topology, rhetorical logic and the writings of Elif Batuman
Jan 8, 2023
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069: diving into the astronomical twilight of our fears
midwinter in Iceland, an insanely huge moon, Beowulf, and of course, monsters and fairies
Dec 24, 2022
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068: On Mimesis
on the putative demise of Twitter, self-representation, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, and why we all need to be seen + Doodle Dispatches does work emoji and a…
Nov 20, 2022
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067: typing on a train to berlin
existential feelings, chat groups and friend groups, missed opportunities, typing on a train to Berlin + T.S. Eliot
Nov 13, 2022
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