Dispatches
As they first went out into the world.
2026
The Solitude Paradox
✦✧ Lessons from The Book of Ashes.
Trying on Different Voices
✦✧ Five new bagatelles with voices from the future, from a train, from a racist, from the very last tunnel, and from the far side of a stroke.
I WAS HERE: The Subtle Art of Underlining
✦✧ or: When I met my grandfather in Bonjour Tristesse
Minor Disturbances
✦✧ three bagatelles on things not going according to plan
Madeleine Moments
✦✧ Proustian travels prompted by Perlenbacher Pils, the combination of toothpaste + drains, and, finally: the vacuum cleaner.
When the Body Keeps the Code
✦✧ A muscle memory special: door codes, someone from before, and a reunion in a pen shop.
The Last Siamese
✦✧ A new novel of magical realism, autofiction and wild imagination.
A Guide to Kafkaesque Living
✦✧ Three new bagatelles: Counter 27, What Doesn't Hurt You, SkateCal.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff on off-peak days, Buddha head reproductions, and the unmapped life
✦✧ The Bagatelles Salon No. 1
Indoor Moss Garden
✦✧ And other ways of travelling without moving.
The Art of the Diarist
My notes from a very distant year.
The Wind Chime Chronicles, part III
D1. You climb out of the window + the final vote.
The Wind Chime Chronicles, part II
D. You follow the music.
The Wind Chime Chronicles
A story that changes with its surroundings.
The Unfolding of The Bagatelles
Q&A from my first year on Substack.
The Museum of Dreams
A new collecting project & five dreamy bagatelles.
Other Kinds of Intimacy
Three bagatelles on being with others.
"I will never become a legend!"
Three bagatelles on being a writer: The Calculated Suppers ✦ Merkel ✧ How to Make a Friend
The Yes Man and the Invader: A Story About Losing Control
When Gabriel met Håkan (or: The Switch)
2025
93 notes to myself
And my favourites from the past year.
How to Practise Hyperphantastic Time Travel
Three bagatelles on movement through time: The Inland Journey ✦ Auster Loop ✧ A Visit from the Great Poet
Collected Works (& the Rage Against the New)
Everything I wrote in 2025. ✦✧
When I hung out with the bell ringers (and became one myself)
Three church-themed bagatelles: The Bell Ringers ✦ Venting ✧ Monotony’s Pattern
BARDO NOIR
Enter my creative process. ✦✧
What I talk about when I talk about AI
And three bagatelles: The Bill Murray of the National Library, stool psychosis and an archive of every dream. ✦✧
László Bíró’s diary, the invention of the ballpoint pen, and an electric committee
This dispatch contains one story only: The Electric Committee ✦✧
A Tribute to Ola
The Renaissance Man ✦✧
Ossian, Gurli, Ingmar & the Other Ghosts
We look into: Family history research ✦ The moment passion starts to fade ✧ And an endless construction.
Atlas
A short story about boxing and love (and getting found in translation). ✦✧
95 years of jealousy, the prodigies & a crow named Rich
+ a milestone moment for The Bagatelles ✦✧
Nobody knows what’s gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip
Three Bagatelles on life, death (and semi-death): Obituary ✦ Change ✧ The Last Impression
The End
Act Five: The last drink with Jan Berger
28 tiny bagatelles from the edges of the unconscious
Something short before bedtime ✦✧
The Meaning of Life
Death in Trieste: A Bagatelle
Back to Belgrade
Act Four: The girlfriend's best friend’s boyfriend
2004
A short short-story about time travel.
Stellan Skarsgård’s Netflix Account & Other Obscurities
Three Bagatelles from the edges of the everyday: Stellan Skarsgård’s Netflix ✦ Eva4ever ✧ The Sabrage Course
The Last Madness
Act Three: A basement, an auction, and a reunion.
We are the World: The Empire of the Bagatelles
Three Bagatelles about our planet: Hermelin’s Insight ✦ The Beringians ✧ The Flight Attendant’s Diary
The Bergman Island Blog
Writings from the house of the master director. ✦✧
Remembrance of Things Past
Three Bagatelles in search of lost time: The Childhood Friend I Don’t Remember ✦ Night Bus to Bombay ✧ All That Slipped Away
In Pursuit of Status
Act Two: The search for Jan Berger continues.
The Generalist’s Revenge
Three bagatelles from the end of the rabbit hole: ✦ Russian Roulette ✧ Where The Story Ends ✦ Free Fall
Paradise City (and the dream of cutting out the middlemen)
To my paying subscriber Björn.
No Better Beginning Than a Terrible Ending
Act One: How to start a novel (together).
The Art of the Diary
Featuring: A Bit Like George Saunders ✦✧ Ingemar ✦✧ The Whistlers
Men Who Don't Wait
Featuring: A short story about searching for someone who lives in your home ✦✧
My meaningful nonsense
Featuring: The Elevator Collector ✦✧ The Pencil World ✦✧ Ingarö's Magellan
Strangers on Trains and Other People Who’ve Met Me
Featuring: Everyone's Talking to Me ✦✧ The Stalker's Lair ✦✧ The Other Dad
Letters from Seville
Featuring: Safari in the realm of wordlessness ✦✧ At New Year ✦✧ Zenonaut's Diary
When I broke my brain
Featuring: Portrait of a Recovery ✦✧ A Phone Call in the Garden ✦✧ The Drifters
The second chance at a first
Featuring: The Maybe Man, Charles Swann ✦✧ The Secret Pianist ✦✧ The Atheist