Marginalia
mar·gi·na·lia
Pronunciation: \ˌmär-jə-ˈnā-lē-ə\
Function: noun plural
Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, neuter plural of marginalis
Date: 1832
1 : marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book)
2 : nonessential items <the meat and marginalia of American politics — Saturday Review>

<–I discovered this fascinating artist, Ira Joel Haber, online and this is one of my favorite pieces of [...]

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Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight.
It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency?
So, the [...]

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How is it that Billy Collins always knows just what to say to make me smile?
(from The Writer’s Almanac, April 17, 2009).

Field Guide by Billy Collins

No one I ask knows the name of the flower we pulled the car to the side of the road to pick and that I [...]

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Back from Utah.
What a glorious trip! This is my third (fourth?) trip to St. George, Utah for work on my book but this time I really felt a much stronger sense of place–which I hope (no, I believe) I can convey in the book. Some days I just sat outside in the red rock canyon [...]

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I’m trying to get caught up on my New Yorkers. Did you read the profile of Ian McEwan from the Feb. 23 issue (which, by the way, had that hilarous and grotesque cover with A Rod)?

Daniel Zalewski’s profile of the Atonement author (read it here) is so compelling, so readable, and SO long. I almost [...]

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Why don’t I read more Colson Whitehead? He’s one of those writers whose books are on my shelf or nightstand and i’ve said– “I’m going to read that one next…” –and then I don’t. Shortly after I moved to NYC, in 1999, his first book, The Intuitionist, came out and I was told by many [...]

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