Reading
On books, reading, and writers.
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Napping Outside: One of the best ways to experience nature
One of my favorite things when I’m out backpacking or canoeing is to take an afternoon nap under a tree somewhere. Karl Heinrich Waggerl wrote…
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Everybody Sees That I Am Old But You: À Quoi Bon Dire by Charlotte Mew
Seventeen years ago you said Something that sounded like Good-bye; And everybody thinks that you are dead, But I. So I, as I grow stiff…
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Rushed Endings: The time my shoddy writing made for good reading
At high school, we had to write at least one long essay every week. I remember one assignment in particular: Write a well-structured adventure story.…
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Visual Thinking
This is one of the books that influenced me as a kid but that I had forgotten about since. I only re-discovered it because I…
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
Malcom Gladwell’s Revenge of the Tipping Point is thought-provoking without being a great book. This isn’t easy to pull off, but Gladwell did it. I…
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Network Television
[Larry] Gross and several of his colleagues once did a fascinating bit of research to demonstrate what television of that era was capable of. He…
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