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Long before "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak made his debut with a "children's" book that is really a work of philosophy exploring loneliness, love, and knowing what you really want (which is the hardest thing in life) themarginalian.org/2016/01/0…
Dark matter and the mystery of our mortal stardust, with an astronomer's stunning poem read by Patti Smith themarginalian.org/2022/02/2…
How to stop waiting and start living – a classic jolt from Henry James themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
Nathaniel Hawthorne's account of his young daughter at his dying mother's bedside is one of the most moving, poignant things I have ever encountered about mortality and the meaning of life: themarginalian.org/2021/11/1…
Corrective for a broken heart themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
Introducing the Museum of Delight! themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
The best thing ever written on how to live with the fundamental fear of loss that haunts all love themarginalian.org/2019/02/2…
How to be un-dead – notes on waking up from the trance of near-living themarginalian.org/2022/11/0…
An introvert's field guide to friendship – Thoreau on the challenges and rewards of candid connection themarginalian.org/2026/10/1…
"1. Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom."
10 rules of writing (which apply to all creative work) from one of the finest writers of our time themarginalian.org/2018/09/0…
The Marginalian turns 20 (!) on Friday. I am constellating some of my favorite humans to read some of my favorite passages from books that have most helped me learn how to live. Join us live from Saratoga Springs – details and free livestream at the link: themarginalian.org/live/
The art of growing older – Simone de Beauvoir on how to keep life from becoming a parody of itself themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
The constitution of the inner country – Leonard Cohen on language and the poetry of presence themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
"Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on anger and the meaning of resistance themarginalian.org/2024/07/1…
A #birddivination for all those habitually unkind to themselves and the beautiful work in progress they are. (That is all of us, really.) Find the full deck of 100 and the story behind them at almanacofbirds.org/
The single most effective remedy for despair – advice from T.H. White's Merlyn, with a side of Yo-Yo Ma themarginalian.org/2026/10/1…
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter — undistracted notes on the search for meaning through art, science, philosophy, poetry, and various other tendrils of wonder. It turns 20 this week, and all this time has remained a one-woman labor of love — free, ad-free, AI-free, and fully human: themarginalian.org/newslette…
Love after life — Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman's extraordinary love letter to his departed wife themarginalian.org/2017/10/1…
Sleep and the meaning of life — Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa on the existential dimension of the horizontal hours themarginalian.org/2026/02/2…
Arthur Rackham's revolutionary century-old illustrations for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, which changed the sensibility and business of book art themarginalian.org/2016/02/2…
