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The Longhand Almanac 2027

A writer for every day of the year, and one on your wall every month. Twelve great writers lead the months, each with a full-page portrait, one of their most famous lines and a short account of the life behind it. The grid below is full of names: a literary birthday or anniversary on every day of 2027.

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The Longhand Almanac 2027 hanging on a wall above a desk, open to January, with a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe.

Insidefour of the twelve months

January: Edgar Allan Poe, with “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.”

April: William Shakespeare, with “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on.”

July: Franz Kafka, with the first line of The Metamorphosis.

November: Mark Twain, with “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

A close view of the August grid, with a writer's name on every day: Borges, Mary Shelley, Lovecraft, Dorothy Parker and more.

A writer for every day

Every day of the grid has a name on it: James Baldwin, Jane Austen, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, Langston Hughes and hundreds more, each on the day they were born, or marked † on the day they died. Bloomsday is there, and the day Moby-Dick came out in America.

The months belong to Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Rimbaud, Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson.

11 × 8.5 in, opening to 11 × 17 in
Wire-bound, with a hole for hanging
January to December 2027, with US holidays

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On the desk

The front cover: twelve portraits of writers around the title, The Longhand Almanac 2027.

The calendar lying open to August, with Herman Melville, on a wooden table beside a cup of coffee.

Every day, a new entry opens in the Almanac on this site, free.