memory

Reading

A book I clearly did not read at eleven

I could describe the plot in detail. I could not, it turned out, actually tell you what the book was about.

Essays

Rereading is not reading again

The second reading of a book happens between a different reader and a different book than the first one did.

Essays

The commonplace book, before it was a metaphor

Before 'commonplace' meant ordinary, it named a specific kind of notebook — and a specific kind of reading.