Author Archives: Stefan

Reimagination and niche-picking

A new specification: not a travel blog per se, but one focused on the ruminations of traveling: its attendant pauses and double-takes, the fresh eye of a traveler above a river. Movement and discovery have always pleased me best. I’ll explain the title of this blog. The words themselves just occurred to me as something that [...]
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What you see here may not stay

I thought it would be different this time. I really did. I wasn’t going to let myself go more than a few days without posting, certainly not weeks . . . this was to be the grown-up blog, the one that admits to itself that it’s a blog, favoring flow over content, never slowing down [...]
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Lanterns

Each tiny fire made him feel so safe and so warm, as if a million cubic feet of darkness could be—had been!—dispelled by its minuscule strength. And they hung around him, close as his own thoughts. Even closer were the voices, which seemed to emanate not from the flickering faces but from a single body, [...]
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Designer Profile:
Peter Mendelsund

A version of this article formatted in sexy full-color PDF is available here. A cover (or jacket) is a token for remembering a book: after its initial task of enticing a consumer, it will be opened, closed, looked at and handled dozens of times. After the sale, matters are in the reader’s hands, and a gawking [...]
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Facebook privacy

Facebook has excused itself to keep your content, for good. Is privacy obsolete?
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