… so little time! I’m way behind on my notebook reviews but here’s a sneak peek at some of what’s in the pipeline! Dreamday Pattern Journals Buy at Amazon Stillman & Birn Softcover Sketchbooks Buy at Amazon Denik Journals Buy at Amazon Shinola notebook Buy from their online store Peninsula notebook (sold in Stop & … Continue reading So Many Notebooks…
From Ian Brown’s lovely essay about keeping a notebook, published in the Globe and Mail: “It’s a neurotic habit, a personal notebook. It can work as a diary, but it’s not intended for publication. Anaïs Nin, who kept a diary from the age of 11 to the day she died at 73 (it started as … Continue reading “A Neurotic Habit”
This is from my latest favorite essay about keeping a notebook, by Irish writer Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane: Stationery stores are for me places of huge erotic frisson. I traipse grubbily around the aisles in my long coat and when I think nobody is looking, I have a surreptitious little sniff at … Continue reading Kevin Barry on the Keeping of Notebooks
A wonderful essay by Shateek Palmer, a young man who turned to writing to cope with a difficult life: The first time I ever wrote about my feelings was when my grandmother was placed in the hospital. I was 9 years old. I knew I had to be strong for her, so I wrote about … Continue reading Shateek Palmer: A Teenager Writing in Notebooks