About

Who keeps these notes

I write one essay when I can, rarely more than one a week, usually about a book, a room or a habit of attention. Most of them start as a note in the margin of something else, and the notes stay in: they hang beside the text, where they were first written.

Books and a bottle sit on a small table beside a balcony railing and a blue chair. — A small table of books by a balcony railing: the kind of place these essays are read.

Reading now

Title	Author	Note
Essays	Michel de Montaigne	One essay a week, in no order. The short ones first.
A Room of One’s Own	Virginia Woolf	Rereading. The margins from last time disagree with me now.
Walden	Henry David Thoreau	Only the chapter on where he lived, slowly.
The Pillow Book	Sei Shōnagon	Lists, mostly. A reminder that a list can be an essay.

Correspondence

Letters about an essay are welcome, especially disagreements and corrections.

Demo note: the essays on this site are fictional samples. Photographs are CC0 from the WordPress Photo Directory by Ravi Patidar, Nilo Velez, Piyush Tekwani and David Chandra Purnama. Replace or delete this note when you publish your own.