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The Art of the Diary

Featuring: A Bit Like George Saunders ✦✧ Ingemar ✦✧ The Whistlers

Apr 24, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

The Generalist’s Revenge

Three bagatelles from the end of the rabbit hole: ✦ Russian Roulette ✧ Where The Story Ends ✦ Free Fall

May 15, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

The Museum of Dreams

A new collecting project & five dreamy bagatelles.

Feb 9 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

"I will never become a legend!"

Three bagatelles on being a writer: The Calculated Suppers ✦ Merkel ✧ How to Make a Friend

Jan 13 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

The Yes Man and the Invader: A Story About Losing Control

When Gabriel met Håkan (or: The Switch)

Jan 7 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

How to Practise Hyperphantastic Time Travel

Three bagatelles on movement through time: The Inland Journey ✦ Auster Loop ✧ A Visit from the Great Poet

Dec 8, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

Collected Works (& the Rage Against the New)

Everything I wrote in 2025. ✦✧

Dec 1, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

When I hung out with the bell ringers (and became one myself)

Three church-themed bagatelles: The Bell Ringers ✦ Venting ✧ Monotony’s Pattern

Nov 17, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

Enter my creative process. ✦✧

Nov 5, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

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What I talk about when I talk about AI

And three bagatelles: The Bill Murray of the National Library, stool psychosis and an archive of every dream. ✦✧

Oct 27, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

László Bíró’s diary, the invention of the ballpoint pen, and an electric committee

This dispatch contains one story only: The Electric Committee ✦✧

Oct 18, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

A Tribute to Ola

The Renaissance Man ✦✧

Oct 9, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

Ossian, Gurli, Ingmar & the Other Ghosts

We look into: Family history research ✦ The moment passion starts to fade ✧ And an endless construction.

Oct 1, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

A short story about boxing and love (and getting found in translation). ✦✧

Sep 19, 2025 • Jörgen Löwenfeldt

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