personal canon
Celine Nguyenfinding meaning in life through literature, art, design, and culture ✦✧ through weekly posts and enthusiastic conversations
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i'm teaching 2 workshops this summer and you're invited
One of the great themes of this newsletter is creative practice and the communities that sustain it. This spring, I began thinking about what it would look like to explore this in the real world—and now that it’s summer, these plans have fi...
i used to think that novels were a waste of time
One of the minor tragedies I inflicted upon myself, in my early twenties, was to stop reading novels. Why read fiction, I thought, when there were books about actual facts and historical figures and ideas? The whole concept of a novel seeme...
everything i read in february & march 2026
In the last few years, I’ve written thousands and thousands of words about the same idea: that reading more (books, magazines, and essays) will change your life for the better. It will satisfy you more than the slop that is, supposedly, mor...
everything i read in january 2026
Novels can be ethical projects, but I usually don’t read them for that reason. I read them to escape reality (or believe in a better one), and I read them for their beauty.
Nonfiction, however, is for understanding, explicit learning, doin...
we've created a society where artists can't make any money
I had never seriously thought about how writers made money, until I began writing myself. I’d read about the starving artists of the past, of course: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is now considered one of the great masterpieces of American li...
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Designer and writer from California. I write about literature, design, fashion, technology, phenomenology, perfume, and Proust
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