Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Relationship Between Books and Books
I had this incredibly tender, obsessive, but also fraught, somewhat secretive relationship to books. I don't know when Michiko Kakutani was, that was not in my, you know, like, if the Mopita's post reviews, like a, a book, I was like, wow, amazing. When we would go to like the indie bookstore, and like the town similar, we would just get, you felt palpably that you were being looked at, like you didn't belong there. My experience of sort of white owned bookstores was very much one of like, if you're here, we're watching you, because you're, you and your dad look like
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