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A note on Haruki Murakami's Novelist as a Vocation
Dave Beer

February 2023

Data ownership, Hilary Mantel, In Writing podcast and a social media job.
Dave Beer
Tales of the Unconnected (Part 1)
Dave Beer

January 2023

A visual (and short) account of the language of number 1 songs over seven decades
Dave Beer
130 years ago Emile Durkheim wrote of how the nature of work had the capacity to cause a ‘greater fatigue of the nervous system’. He was developing the…
Dave Beer
Flicking through my five volume collection of Walter Benjamin’s complete writings I stumbled upon a curious fragment on Mickey Mouse.
Dave Beer
Making the case for not quite knowing what you are doing
Dave Beer

December 2022

A crisis of the imagination, Orwell’s reviewing style and some reading matter
Dave Beer
News of my new book and a discount code for subscribers to this newsletter
Dave Beer

November 2022

Given the endless stories of growth upon growth, cutbacks don’t sit comfortably in social media’s narrative arc. The various reports of large scale job…
Dave Beer
Writing digressions and fragments of culture (plus a music playlist)
Dave Beer

September 2022

In what feels like a bit of a fallow writing period I gripped tightly to Irina Dumitrescu's brilliant reflections on productivity posted recently on her…
Dave Beer
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