rereading
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Think You’re Escaping and Run Into Yourself
Over at The Oyster Review, our very own Rumblr editor Molly McArdle has composed a lovely essay about how rereading old books is a journey back to the past. She writes: The books I revisited were all fantastical and all had…
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Read and Then Read Again
How do we reread and is it necessary? Tim Parks demystifies the art of going back to a text for the third, fourth and fifth time.
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“The reality of the page and the reality outside it”
Think about the books you’ve come back to again and again. Now, think about how many of those were reread during your childhood and teenage years. Come to think of it, when was the last time you had time to…
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Summer Rereading
“I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other from the tree of time. “Tonight I found a candle on a table, and as a game…