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Co-creation x Puänt

Collaboration project with Puänt bookstore in Tallinn. Find some of my fave books in the store.

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August 2021 | Reading & Writing

Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, August 2021 edition.

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Acne Paper by Thomas Persson

A fashion magazine disguised as the guardian of culture, the Acne Paper magazine invites the reader to an elitist aesthetic feast.

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July 2021 | Reading & Writing

June 2021 Reading Recommendations May 2021 Reading Recommendations April 2021 Reading Recommendations WEEK 30 [ ] #exhibition #photography | Shomei Tomatsu + Daido Moriyama at MEP Paris The exhibition of the two Japanese post-WW2 photographers at MEP Paris features boldly contrasted B&W pictures of nightlife in Shinjuku, public protests, casual litter from the street, compilations […]

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Second Place by Rachel Cusk

Review of Second Place by Rachel Cusk.

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June 2021 | Reading & Writing

May 2021 Reading Recommendations April 2021 Reading Recommendations March 2021 Reading Recommendations WEEK 23 Exhibitions seen this week: the sweeping color landscapes by Hans Hartung at Galerie Perrotin and the sculptures by the French sculptor César, exhibited at César & César & César at Almine Rech. #book #literature | The Actual by Saul Bellow This […]

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John Cage: A Mycological Foray

On the avant-garde composer's lifelong passion for mushrooms

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May 2021 Reading & Writing

April 2021 Reading Recommendations March 2021 Reading Recommendations WEEK 20 Reouverture week in Paris, finalement. Cafe terraces open for reading and museums open for contemplative walks, it takes a certain willpower to resist the constant temptation to leave home. After visits to a couple of art exhibitions, a film on Françoise Sagan + interviews with […]

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March 2021 Reading Recommendations

February 2021 Reading Recommendations January 2021 Reading Recommendations 2020 Book & Reading Recommendations WEEK 12 Choose a weekend, find a novel – it must be in a physical book form, read it in a single day. This is my currently most-beloved form of acclimatizing my brain to a different wavelength, alternating thoughts from the quotidian […]

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February 2021 Reading & Writing

January 2021 Reading Recommendations 2020 Book & Reading Recommendations WEEK 8 For every fleeting momentum of reading recently-published literary works, I fall back into the rhythm of reading 20th-century authors. This week, it’s been Saul Bellow’s nonfiction writing and George Saunders’ thoughtful and amusing analysis of the Russian short story masters Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and […]

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