Optimally Empty
A piece about hanging out in coffee shops, the cultivation of empty stillness, and the foppishness of dogs wearing cravats.
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Strange Happenings in Yangzhou
“In Yangzhou, during Jiayou era, there was an extremely large pearl that everybody could see when the sky was dark…” — an odd tale from 11th century China.
On Drinking Tea
My good friend Annie Pecheva has just published a wonderful blog post on drinking tea. Annie translates a list of …
Storytellers and Anthropologists
I’m currently in the middle of editing a book that I’ve been working on about the Tanimbar islands in Indonesia. I was …
The Pleasure and Difficulty of Writing
A piece about Tove Jansson, pleasure, and why we really shouldn’t suffer for our art.
