Perspectives | On Keeping a Diary

By Delacroix, Gide, Sontag and others

I've gained a great many things since joining Substack a few months ago. I find a strange satisfaction in adhering to the weekly deadline, however unnecessary and self imposed it may be. I'm prompted by its looming presence to press on with that bit of reading I'd have otherwise neglected or to spend an evening writing that would otherwise have been los…