What Booksellers Can Teach Us About Reading, Writing and Publishing

Will Mountain Cox Reflects on Creating Literary Culture and Community Across Continents

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MOST WRITERS aren’t smarter than the reader. She is.

 

SO THIS CAME BY MAIL. It’s a British book and my bookstore said they couldn’t get it. I have four good books going now. I’ve only read the first two poems in the Louise Gluck book. I don’t watch much on the screen anymore. Not even news. I get the New York Times and the Washington Post online, and I do like stuff YouTube brings me that I’ve subscribed to. I’ve vowed that this coming year I’ll read more, like I used to.