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28
Dec
Annual report 2023

Annual report 2023

Letter No. 66: Includes mostly self-aggrandizement, but the pictures are nice. Dear readers, thank you for your attention throughout this
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20
Dec
When you can’t say it better yourself, shut up and listen

When you can’t say it better yourself, shut up and listen

Letter No. 65: Includes unusually fine deployment of the English language by someone who knows what she’s doing. HOPE
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13
Dec
The Hi Guy in the fiction section

The Hi Guy in the fiction section

Letter No. 64: Includes incidents in two bookshops, lots of hellos, and some personal disappointment. I was browsing in a
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06
Dec
Book report for November 2023

Book report for November 2023

Letter No. 63: Includes California, God, physics, a Polaroid camera, and single-sentence stories. I read a quartet of the dissimilar
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04
Dec
Hey, good lookin’, love your information

Hey, good lookin’, love your information

Letter No. 63: Includes discussion of silver halide, photons, egrets, and one tossed-off analogy. On a November Saturday at the
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23
Nov
Moments made possible by one of those open offices without dividers

Moments made possible by one of those open offices without dividers

Letter No. 62: Includes tiny narratives, shards of story, and epigrammatic morsels of mordant observation. First, to all of my
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19
Nov
Chance encounters with the celebrated

Chance encounters with the celebrated

Letter No. 61: Includes far more name-dropping than is customary. Walking into McNally Jackson Books in Soho, I nearly collided
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15
Nov
More of the reading public reading in public

More of the reading public reading in public

Letter No. 60: Includes books and chai and something in the eye. Additional images from Dr Essai’s growing archive
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09
Nov
Book report for October 2023

Book report for October 2023

Letter No. 59: Includes a book in a box, two really stupid characters, and more mystification than is customary This
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07
Nov
Poster politics in Washington, DC

Poster politics in Washington, DC

Letter No. 58: Includes street politics, cryptic commentary, and strange use of hearts There are many ways to wage politics
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