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Nesting Dolls: Julie Carr’s Objects from a Borrowed Confession

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • April 20, 2018
Would you say poetry, for you, is the vessel which houses all other forms? I would say it is for me.
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Renovating Reality: A Remembrance of J. D. McClatchy

  • Naomi J. Williams
  • April 17, 2018
To us he was Professor McClatchy, and he presided over our Wednesday afternoon sessions with the grace of an elegant, erudite gentleman.
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Marginalia’s Moment

  • Kyle Williams
  • December 21, 2015
At any moment the reader is ready to become a writer. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, S. Brent Plate discusses the place of book marginalia as we go…
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Marginalized

  • Mary Allen
  • November 19, 2015
Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake — not merely conscious, but wide awake. Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and…
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Defining America through Marriage

  • Michelle Vider
  • November 16, 2015
At Marginalia, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, Darryl W. Stephens reviews a new history of 19th century marriage by Leslie Harris. Harris’s book documents the ways…
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Contingent Justice

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 15, 2015
LARB’s Marginalia Review of Books recently published a series of essays on the future of tenure. While addressing the academic labor crisis, the series digs deeply into our wider national…
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How Should A Person Read?

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 24, 2014
While Tim Parks doesn’t want to be prescriptive, he offers his own techniques as inspiration: Getting a sense of the values around which the story is organizing itself isn’t always…
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Between the Lines

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 16, 2014
While some bibliophiles hold books as sacred artworks to be carefully preserved, others can’t read without a little back-and-forth. Laura Miller makes a case for defacing pages: Marginalia is a…
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The Original Comments Section

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 12, 2014
For the New Yorker, Lauren Collins looks at what she calls “the original comments section”—old notes written in the margins of books—and our modern obsession with them.
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A Story Unfolds in the Marginalia

  • Serena Candelaria
  • November 26, 2013
After finding a paperback novel strewn on an airport bench with the note: “To whomever finds this book—please read it, take it somewhere, and leave it for someone else to…
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Authors Deface Own Books for Charity

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • April 30, 2013
Literary organization English PEN has chosen an interesting way to raise funds: ask authors to annotate first editions of their books, and then auction them off. J. K. Rowling is…
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Writing in the Margins

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 31, 2012
Here’s a different kind of year-end book list: for the New York Times, Sam Anderson looks back at the notes he left in his reading material during 2012. Have you scribbled…
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