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Posted inReading List, Writing

On Keeping a Notebook: A Reading List

by Jeanne Bonner July 23, 2019October 19, 2022

In this reading list, Jeanne Bonner ruminates on the joys of writing by hand and keeping a notebook.

Posted inNonfiction

How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary?

by Sophie Lucido Johnson April 4, 2019April 21, 2023

Stumbling upon someone’s lost journal in a used book store leads Sophie Lucido Johnson down a path she couldn’t have expected.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes

Is Keeping a Diary Harmful to Your Daily Existence?

by A. N. Devers April 6, 2015October 19, 2022

In Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, writer Sarah Manguso meditates on her decades-long obsession with keeping a minutiae-filled diary of her daily life, a practice she has decided is a vice. She discusses being the envy of others who covet her dedication and focus on the project, how her memory of actual events has been effected […]

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