waste books

  • How to Waste a Notebook: The Waste Books of Lichtenberg

    How to Waste a Notebook: The Waste Books of Lichtenberg

    I’ve been keeping notebooks since I was 14 years-old. These aren’t diaries or journals, just the workaday jottings of stray thoughts and “brilliant” notions, occasional phone numbers and grocery lists of the past 26 years. Here are some of them: Originally, my preferred notebook was a 4×6-inch spiral-bound (side not top) Mead, which would fit…