Welcome to Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
The booksellers along the Seine were ordered to close their stalls to accommodate the Olympics this summer. Then, President Macron intervened. “Paris is a city born from the dreams of writers.”
The story behind how letters exchanged between Oliver Sacks and Susan Barry became books in their own right.
The rare piece that is surprising, thoughtful, and less than a five-minute read, with this hook of an opening line: “I have never owned a smartphone.”
What do calendars do?
This week I learned about the Medieval Italian version of a commonplace book, the zibaldone, which translates to “heap of things”.
Currently reading: “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau
Have a creative weekend.
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