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A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary - The Brooklyn Rail

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And this is where A Year With Swollen Appendices is most insightful. The Appendices are informative, short essays through which Eno presents his thinking and values. The diary part of the book, for the most part, is informative in a different way.

Word count: 1822 Paragraphs: 15 A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary (Faber & Faber, 2021) In his own introduction to Faber & Faber’s new, beautiful 25th anniversary edition of A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary (the hardbound book has two sewn-in bookmarks and the “Appendices” section is printed on paper that has a delicate salmon color), Brian Eno wrote out a list of words that are new in the vernacular since the initial 1996 publication. With one word per line, the list spans nearly 13 pages, and includes: 9/11, alt-right, Amazon, barista, binge-watch, Black Live

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