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Reading lists, workshop notes, archive news, and short essays from the desk — posted most weeks, always worth your tea break.

14 May 2026 · Reading lists

6 Books That Taught Me How to Spend an Hour

Attention is a craft before it is a habit. These are the six books I return to whenever my days start spending me instead.

10 May 2026 · News

Forty-one notebooks, three decades of mornings — and why I decided they belong to the public reading room, not my attic.

28 April 2026 · Craft

Twelve writers, four weeks, one rule: the draft is allowed to be bad. What happened next surprised even me.

15 April 2026 · Writing life

The exact shape of my working day — the lamp, the walk, the closed door — and how to build one of your own.

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