Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

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Transfer at 42nd Street
If you’ve ever frightened a large crowd, you’ve felt the shiver.
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May 2023
Here’s a comforting paradox: I don’t need a single original idea to create original writing.
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The Necessity of Precision
A precision to paragraphs that few writers even attempt.
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Some Notes on Self-Sabotage
Self-sabotage is the most efficient type of sabotage.
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First Drafts
Wine is best for first drafts and coffee is best for second drafts.
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Walls that Whisper
Summertime in Bucharest is hot and salty and oppressive—which makes it rather easy to stumble into Gestapo Headquarters.
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The Addressless
The real map is a hidden network of relationships and memories and associations.
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How to Practice Writing
There are good methods to exercise your writing abilities.
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Some Notes on American Presidents and British Monarchs
The desire to complain always finds an outlet.
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Desk Notes by Charles Schifano
Desk Notes by Charles Schifano
Exploring writing, travel, and literature.
Most Popular—Literature
The Problem With Contemporary WritingTo care about the state and quality of writing today is to scream into a void while knowing that the void does nothing but laugh.
Losing a LanguageIf you have ever learned a new language, you will recognize these struggles.
Most Popular—Personal
SoundlessNothing makes you doubt the merits of a music education more than a neighbor who takes up the violin.
WhisperIn the São Paulo summer, the air is salty and thick and the rains are always just minutes away.
Most Popular—Contemporary
The Power StruggleThe purpose of life, it seems abundantly clear, is to charge your devices.
How We Read NowTo stroll through the modern library in your pocket is to watch the once static and eternal books around you contort and transform before your very eyes.

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