Subtle Digressions

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Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

On wriggling through a creative life—with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

I write essays about relationships, agency, and creativity. I hang with our kids. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea.

144-word essays, book stuff, writing stuff, etc.

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1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.