Updated 18 October 2026

Now

Lisbon, mostly Graça. Writing most mornings at a café by the miradouro, before the tourists find it.

Making

• Season 4 of Slow Signals. Recording through November, back in January with six conversations about listening.
• A book proposal, working title Rooms, Not Feeds. Two chapters drafted; one of them is good.
• Moving the last of the 2018 letters into this site. Forty-one to go.

Reading

• The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald — slowly, on paper.
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard — again.

Listening

• Carlos Paredes, Guitarra Portuguesa.
• Ten-minute field recordings of the same corner in Graça, every Sunday.

Learning

• The Portuguese future subjunctive, which Dona Graça says I use like a tourist.

Not doing

• Conferences until March.
• New social accounts. Four was enough.

This is a now page: what I’d tell a friend I hadn’t seen in a year. I update it when something changes.