May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/13/may-sarton-living-alone/

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/10/thoreau-friendship/

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

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Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/16/keith-haring-journals/

A Bonne and Children (1821) by Mary Browne, from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

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Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/15/kafka-diaries-self-doubt/

How Not to Waste Your Life

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/15/hawthorne-life/