# Today we are reading Lapham Quarterly, Cal Newport, John McPhee (2024-03-14)

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Lapham Quarterly is one of our favorite publications. On our coffee table at the moment is:

- [https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rule-law](https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rule-law)

Another piece of literature that we are reading this week:

- [My new book: Slow Productivity - Cal Newport](https://calnewport.com/my-new-book-slow-productivity/)  
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Interestengly enough - Cal Newport starts his book by describing how another favorite author of ours works – John McPhee:

- [Draft no. 4 : on the writing process : McPhee, John, 1931- author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/draftno4onwritin0000mcph)
- [The Pine Barrens by John McPhee | Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821355.The_Pine_Barrens)