Archive - Musement

Hugh of Saint-Victor's Little Book For Building Noah's Ark

Mar 23

Save your soul and your focus by reading like a monk

Mar 16

You Are What You (Don't) Read

Mar 9

Weird maps, talking submarine cables, yelling about English majors

Mar 1

February 2023

Melvil Dewey's quest to make the perfect script

Feb 22

Is a Substack a blog? Does it matter?

Feb 13

Two non-reviews of books about Haruki Murakami, and a balanced breakfast recipe

Feb 8

Or, can you still succeed in publishing just by working hard, writing well, and reading a lot?

Feb 1

January 2023

Copyright extension is bad for books, bad for culture, and bad for (almost all) businesses

Jan 18

December 2022

Deaths in 2022, the public domain in 2023, and people pretending to be robots pretending to be people

Dec 31, 2022

Looking back on Musement's first full year

Dec 28, 2022

And a few other observations on Katherine Rundell's life of John Donne

Dec 20, 2022

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