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At home I'm a tourist
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This is not a diary: January 2025
On seasons, Mavis Gallant, and the virtue of limits
Jan 20
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Un oscuro día de justicia, Rodolfo Walsh
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The sadness of the published author
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The comfort of doubt
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Colour theory
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Out of time
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Five steps to finishing every manuscript
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Dec 9, 2025
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State of the word
On vanished literary shitstorms, certified-human literature, and returning to my mother tongue
Dec 3, 2025
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陰翳礼讃, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (In Praise of Shadows; Edward G. Seidensticker and Thomas J. Harper, tr.)
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