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A warm welcome to The Literary Flâneur, and a bit more about what to expect here.
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Join me for a saunter through the boulevards and alleyways of literature, art, and found delights.
Enjoy browsing field notes, ephemera, marginalia and curious mementos from the wanderings of a lifelong literary flâneuse.
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In praise of the narrow column
Why measure, that simple, ancient typographic constraint, is still the single most important decision on a reading page.
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Field notes from a small harbour
A week of walking, reading, and watching the boats come in. What slow places teach about attention.
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Building tools that disappear
The best software for thinking gets out of the way. A short meditation on restraint as an engineering value.
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A conversation with a bookbinder
On hand-stitched signatures, the smell of linen thread, and what a centuries-old craft still has to teach the rest of us.
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Writing against the algorithm
A short argument for publishing in places that don't optimise for you, and for readers who arrive on purpose.
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The grammar of good buttons
A button is a sentence. A short one, in the imperative. Here is how to write it well.
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What I learned from a year of walking
Three hundred and sixty-five days, one slow route, and a small notebook. A report from the pavement.
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