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The Casual Optimist

Books, Design and Culture.

  • By Dan Wagstaff
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly one post per week
  • First post on

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Month starting Posts
Jul 2022 1
Aug 2022 2
Sep 2022 2
Oct 2022 4
Nov 2022 3
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 5
Feb 2023 2
Mar 2023 1
Apr 2023 2
May 2023 3
Jun 2023 4
Jul 2023 3
Aug 2023 5
Sep 2023 2
Oct 2023 2
Nov 2023 2
Dec 2023 4
Jan 2024 4
Feb 2024 4
Mar 2024 5
Apr 2024 3
May 2024 3
Jun 2024 6
Jul 2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Book Covers of Note, July 2024
I wonder what it is like to live in uninteresting — boring, even — times? It must be nice. While I continue to ponder that, here are this month’s book covers…. The Alternatives by Caoilinn …
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Best Books for Summer by Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld for The Guardian. This is pretty much me whenever we go on vacation, although I usually bring more anxiety to the mix.
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Write What You Know
This is pretty much why I don’t write anything I don’t have to. Asher Perlman’s book of cartoons, Well, This is Me, is available now.
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