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Setting the text
Justified or ragged, indented or spaced: the same passage, set four ways.
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The window
A short note on looking out.
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Listening this autumn
A pianist, a record label, and four minutes on a mountain.
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On reading slowly
Against skimming, and for the long afternoon with one book.
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Punctuation personified
A children’s book from 1824 in which the commas have feelings.
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Gardens, briefly
A note from a summer spent mostly outdoors.
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A sentence I keep returning to
Eight words from Emerson, and why they stuck.
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Writing in plain text
Why my drafts live in the simplest files I can make.
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On margins
The white space around a page is not empty.
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Five books for a long winter
Old, unhurried books, all of them free to read.
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Walking in the rain
A defence of bad weather and the people who go out in it.
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The commonplace book
Keeping a notebook of other people’s sentences.
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A room to write in
On desks, doors, and the furniture of concentration.
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Along the coast (III)
The last day, and what the notebook turned out to hold.
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Along the coast (II)
Fishing boats, weather, and the slow arithmetic of tides.
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Along the coast (I)
Setting out with a notebook and no particular plan.
