The Sometimes Newsletter is a curation concerned with paying close attention, the relationship between beauty and the mundane, sustaining a long-term creativity, and the things that are fallen in love with. The regular (numbered) edition of the newsletter gets sent out on (most) Saturday afternoons, and there are also additional posts sent out to paid supporters, like short fiction stories, longer illustrated essays, and previews of what I’m currently working on.
I’m a New York Times and internationally bestselling author-illustrator of five books, including Lost in Translation and Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe, a collection of illustrated essays about spacetime and plants and everything in between. It was deemed “[A] lyrical and luminous celebration of science” by Maria Popova of The Marginalian (formerly Brainpickings).
My most recent book, Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World, was published in August 2022—Publishers Weekly called it a “reconsideration of the mundane”—and is a manifesto for those who are struggling to remember or recognize what beauty is, and a reimagining of what beauty might need to be.
There is a lengthier about page here, which likely needs updating.
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