Essays
On Writing Badly Every Morning
Three pages before breakfast, and permission to make them terrible.
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Essays
The Year I Stopped Reading the News Before Noon
What happened to my attention — and my sentences — when mornings went quiet.
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Ideas
The Year I Stopped Reading the News Before Noon
What happened to my attention — and my sentences — when mornings went quiet.
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Essays
Fall on Route 1, Mile by Mile
A slow drive up the Maine coast, and the notebook I filled on the way.
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Interiors
Designing With Shadows: How Light Shapes a Room
Architects explain why the best rooms are not evenly lit.
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