marginalia
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Those marginalia are little workmanships, like the earlier ones of crayon and wool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
A critic could generate a whole book review simply by reproducing her marginalia.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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