Notebook
Journal
Occasional notes: habits at the desk, the field notebooks behind the books, translators’ questions, reader letters.
Notebook18 June 2026 · 1 min
On writing in the morning
Not because I like getting up at half past five, but because at that hour nobody wants anything from me.
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Books1 min
The well notebooks: where a novel comes from
Four pages from the notebook I kept while writing The Light at the Bottom of the Well.
2 May 2026Notebook1 min
Reader letters, and not being able to reply
I read every letter that arrives; I can't answer them all. I wanted to explain why.
21 March 2026Books1 min
The same wind in eight languages
The questions translators asked showed me the parts of the novel I didn't know about myself.
14 January 2026Workshop1 min
Notes from the Sinop workshop
Eighteen people, two days, one rule: nobody defends their own text.
5 September 2025A short letter every two months
News of new books and printings, signing dates, and now and then an unpublished page.