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    Long before bookmarks, highlights, or comment threads, readers talked back to books in the margins....
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    In this story, evidence doesn’t shout. It whispers—from margins, footnotes, repetitions, and...
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    We tend to imagine the Victorian world as slow and settled. In reality, it was dense with paper....
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    An early reader described The Marginalia Messenger as “a literary puzzle box.” It feels right, not...
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    I’ve always been drawn to stories where history, technology, and communication intersect. Where the...
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    A mystery driven by accumulation: documents, notes in the margins, patterns, and the slow...
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    One of the quiet pleasures of writing The Marginalia Messenger was anchoring it in real...
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    London, 2025: a book changes hands at an estate auction, quietly, without ceremony. London, 1885: a...