marginalia

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There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

It would be five more years before “In Search” was published in full and decades before an authoritative text was established from the morass of his marginalia.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022

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

From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022

My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

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