what the sidebar knows volume1
My mother kept a running commentary in the margins of her cookbooks, and it is, without exaggeration, the most honest writing in our family's possession.…
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on marginalia and other ways of reading sideways volume1
The books I trust most are the ones that have been written in by someone other than me. Not defaced — annotated. A pencil check mark next to a paragraph. A…
a partial inventory of things overheard on the 6 train
I started keeping the notebook by accident. A woman across the aisle said something so specific — "he told me the soup was a metaphor and I have never…