Margin, essays by June Ash
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2026
17
On keeping a notebook nobody will read
Mar
16
The case for slow email
Jan
2025
15
Walking as an editing technique
Nov
14
On rereading yourself
Aug
13
Deadlines, a defense
May
12
The library card as biography
Feb
2024
11
Against frictionless everything
Oct
10
Marginalia, a love letter
Jun
“The margin is where the reader talks back1. A book with clean margins was merely bought; a book with full ones was read.”
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From essay 10, “Marginalia, a love letter.” The library disagrees about the talking back.
Margin is written by June Ash and published from a small desk in Devon.
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