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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...

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Reading 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...

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Fugitive 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,...

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A 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...

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An 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...

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Contemporary 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...

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Peculiar, 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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