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The Baloney Detection Kit – Carl Sagan's timeless tenets of critical thinking themarginalian.org/2014/01/0…
How to fall in love better – a field guide to enlightened enchantment themarginalian.org/2026/09/2…
Tonight! Join me live from Saratoga Springs NY to celebrate 20 years of The Marginalian with some of the poetry and prose I most love, read by some of the humans I most love: youtube.com/watch?v=qKd8UMjQ…
The wildest bet is the winning bet themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."
When things fall apart: themarginalian.org/2017/07/1…
Born on this day in 1919, Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize. Her timeless, increasingly timely meditation on breaking free from the prisons we choose to live inside: themarginalian.org/2024/11/1…
Ursula K. Le Guin on the meaning of life themarginalian.org/2026/06/0…
Nathaniel Hawthorne on how to look and really see themarginalian.org/2022/08/1…
How to grow old without letting life become a parody of itself themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
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/
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…
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…
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…
