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Since 2012, I’ve been writing about books. And the act of reading. And the importance of story and narrative. But, mostly, the underlying theme of all I write is how taking a moment to stop and digest some longform text — instead of scrolling, instead of watching a video, instead of multitasking — can be one of the most grounding things we can do for ourselves. Here’s the one-stop online home for all this writing.
You can read more about me and my work by moseying over here. Want to peruse periodic “essay drops” — excerpts from my work-in-progress essay collection about Homesickness? Here ya go.
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Most interesting article I’ve read in the last few days = this NYT piece about artist Julia Weist and the diagrammatic collages she creates using data from her role as a private investigator — a role that prompted the New York Department of State to investigate one of its investigators (that is, Weist; the conundrum at hand was “how exactly her work as an artist qualified her to be a P.I.”).