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Here’s my brief every two months miscellany of sneak peeks, tidbits, and thoughts about cities, walking, history, editing, and whatever else I’ve been up to.
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Memoirs and Influencers (opens the original)
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September 2026Who shapes our discussions and our memories? In Spacing’s election issue, we profile the advocates who seek to influence how politicians and the public think about some key public space issues. But memoirs, too, also seek to shape how we think – about the writer, the people they knew, and the past – an idea that was very evident as a I read Margaret Atwood’s memoir. Memoirs also shape the past by what they leave out, and Atwood’s sparked an engaging memory for me that is not in the
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