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David Mitchell’s Notebook

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I wasn’t familiar with David Mitchell’s books, but there was an interesting article about him in this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: Since the appearance of his debut novel, “Ghostwritten,” in 1999 — a fifth, “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” is being published this week — Mitchell’s writing has been compared with … Continue reading David Mitchell’s Notebook →

Diary, Filofax, Links, Organization, record-keeping

Virginia Heffernan Mourns the Filofax

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I enjoyed this article in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine: The Demise of Datebooks, by Virginia Heffernan. I miss my Filofax datebook, with its six rings and dark red leather binder. I had a green one first, with a calendar that cast each week across two cream-colored pages. Back then, at age 30, I was … Continue reading Virginia Heffernan Mourns the Filofax →