Pen, Book & Garden: Notes from Linnesby

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Bolinas
Memories of a hippie childhood
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Linnesby
12

April 2024

On springtime, fathers and loss
Includes Victor Hugo's "Demain, dès l'aube"
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Linnesby
12

March 2024

A translated poem, and memories of the poets Kenneth Koch and Brigit Kelly
"Listen"
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Linnesby
7
On writing in notebooks
Diaries, essays, and dialogue
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Linnesby
11
Who Is a Novel For?
With Nothing on Her Shoulder, After the Apple Harvest, and With a Baby on Her Shoulder, by Gaby Gummesson, 2022-2023.
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Linnesby
4

February 2024

Planting apple trees
Includes works by Orwell and Solnit
4
A soft environment
On softness, "edge" and clarity
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Linnesby
4
On a charming and effective introduction to numerical literacy
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Stats in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them), by Tom Chivers and David Chivers (2021)
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Linnesby
Welcome!
To Pen, Book and Garden (Notes from Linnesby)
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Linnesby
The Radical Acceptance of Uncertainty
Follow-up to Tove Jansson part 2
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Linnesby
2
A few words on writing and uncertainty
On writing
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Linnesby
9

January 2024

On attention and reciprocity
Stories by Tove Jansson, Part 3 (“The Squirrel”)
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Linnesby
2
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