Series · 2 parts
Small print
Essays on the furniture of writing that readers rarely look at: the footnote, the pilcrow, the margin and the space between.
Notes on the parts of a page that do their work quietly. More will follow when the next small thing insists on it.
Still being written
1
In praise of the footnote
A footnote is a second voice under the first: the writer arguing with herself in a smaller size. A defence of the quietest part of a page.
2
The pilcrow’s long holiday
The paragraph mark ¶ once opened every new thought in red. Then printers left space for it and never came back. On the ghost at the start of each paragraph.
The letter
One letter, on the first Sunday of the month.
The new essay in full, two or three notes, and nothing else. No tracking pixels, no counting of opens, one click to leave.