Issue 58 - John McNab
In the first few pages of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino takes you into a bookshop: past the shelves of books you haven’t read; past the books you needn’t read; past books which have been made for purposes other than reading; past books that everybody has read, so it feels as if you have read them too; and past the books you mean to read, but won’t yet because there are others you must read first.
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