A Library of Imaginary Books
In The Library at Night Alberto Manguel writes: I keep a list of books that I feel are missing from my library and that I hope one day to buy, and another, more wishful than useful, of books I’d like...
View ArticleReading Fugitive Pieces
Writer Anne Michaels would agree that, “The ideal reader reads all literature as if it were anonymous.” Michaels has deliberately kept a low profile, saying “I really believe we read differently when...
View ArticleFugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Anne Michael’s Fugitive Pieces is an impressive first novel. I am unsure of its impact. There are some mesmerising moments, the opening scenes as the boy emerges from the bog. The story of loss,...
View ArticleA Diverse Library
Often a book will return to haunt my idle moments, in the early morning watching the sky lighten or while gazing out of a train. Fragments of Fugitive Pieces come back to me in this way. Amid the...
View ArticleAn Eclectic Library
Reading Fugitive Pieces, a couple of months back, I came across a library that would consume my attention for years: I would spend weeks inside your house, an archaeologist examining one square inch at...
View ArticleContemporary and Deliberate
In response to my list of most-read authors Kevin of Interpolations asked a great question: Any authors who haven’t written five books yet that you think might eventually make your list? I thought a...
View ArticlePeculiar, if not Deranged
I have this fascination for fictional libraries, imagining myself absorbed for hours checking out the titles and editions on their shelves. Aside from Borges’s speculations about fictional books, one...
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