Writing
Essays on writing clearly and classic texts worth imitating.
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How to Keep a Commonplace Book: The Reading Habit of Jefferson, Milton, and Bacon
For centuries, educated men kept a notebook of the best things they read. What a commonplace book is, how to start one this week,…
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Death of a Pig
By E.B. White -1- I spent several days and nights in mid-September with an ailing pig and I feel driven to account for this…
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Twenty-Eight Quotes From The Library of Congress
All twenty-eight quotations inscribed in the main lobby of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building.
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A Crossroads of Frontiers: The Wagon Box
A weekend at The Wagon Box in Story, Wyoming, where the frontier spirit lives on in conversation.
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The Whistle
Benjamin Franklin’s letter The Whistle, on the folly of paying too much for things we want.
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Walking With Thoreau
Why Thoreau treated a walk as a spiritual initiation, and what we lose by no longer walking.
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How Do We Become Better Writers?
Why a good writer is a clear writer, and clear writing starts with clear thinking.
