marginalia

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The interstitial collage elements play the role of footnotes, or more accurately, the marginalia of a slightly older, wiser reader revisiting a beloved book.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.

From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022

One of my favorites is the catalog that accompanies Swann’s annual LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale, which includes more than 200 items of queer marginalia from the Civil War era to today.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

The strikethroughs and marginalia of Sylvia Plath’s manuscripts can deliver multiple monologues, showing us all that the finished poem leaves unsaid.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz