The Amateur
Cecily CarverEssays about books, opera, and whatever else I'm interested in.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Latest Issues
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People should read more French novels
An amazing Modern Library cover for The Charterhouse of Parma. If you have three hundred dollars you can buy it here
Why Play the Piano?
My marked-up sheet music for Chopin’s Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor.
Tosca's predicament
This is part of an ongoing series about the operas of the standard repertoire. The most recent entries: I Pagliacci, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Nixon in China, Rigoletto, Faust, The Marriage of Figaro...
Belated 2025 roundup
It’s a little late for year-end roundups, but I’d like to do one anyway. I neglected this newsletter this past year for a couple of reasons, the most significant of which was that I allocated most of my writing time toward working on the se...
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I write about things that interest me, mostly books, movies, culture, and classical music. Canadian living in Seattle and working in tech.
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