Footnotes

Losing My Library: The Poetics of Space | 🍂 Footnotes #10

In this edition: Umberto Eco, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ripley, Bulgakov, Terence Malick and (of course) Seneca.

Aug 25, 2024 •

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Rescuing Books from British Pubs | 🍂 Footnotes #9

In this edition: Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Bocaccio, Carlo Rovelli, Victor Hugo and Peter Jackson.

Jun 23, 2024

🍂 Footnotes #8 | Why Dictators Like eBooks

In this edition: Solzhenitsyn, Christopher de Hamel, Ali Abdaal, Nikos Kazantzakis, Steven Gambardella, Armand D'Angour and others

Jan 7, 2024

EP. 3 Tolstoy on Science vs Religion, and the Meaning of Life

In this episode, we're delving into a rare book by Leo Tolstoy, written during his darkest times.

Dec 20, 2023 •

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💂‍♀️A Dispatch From London's Book Fair (2023)

“Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.”

Nov 27, 2023 •

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🍂 Footnotes #7 | From Spectator to Creator

In this edition: Vladimir Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, J.W von Goethe, Jorge Luis Borges and others.

Oct 1, 2023

🍂 Footnotes #5 | Antidote to Consumerism

In this edition: Marguerite Yourcenar, Oliver Burkeman, Gustave Flaubert, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand and others

Sep 3, 2023 •

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🍂 Footnotes #4 | On Living Life Inertly

In this edition: Godard, Beauvoir, Weil, Arendt, Rilke, Cicero and Coleridge.

Aug 27, 2023 •

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🍂 Footnotes #3 | How to Measure Your Life?

In this edition: W.G. Sebald, Anaïs Nin, Arthur Rimbaud, Alexander the Great and others.

Aug 13, 2023 •

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🍂 Footnotes #2 | Kubrick & The Oldest Coffee Shop in London.

In this edition: An Inventory of Loss by Schalansky, The Visionaires by Eilenberger, The Emperor's New Mind by Penrose, Stanley Kubrick and Me by Emilio…

Aug 6, 2023 •

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🍂 Footnotes #1 | Milan Kundera, Napoleon and the Value of Friendship.

💭 Word of the week: "Anam Cara" means "Soul Friend" in Irish Gaelic.

Jul 30, 2023 •

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