To be writing on a blog in this day and age is, let’s be honest, like being a scrivener of three-decker novels in the days of the paperback original. Or, perhaps more correctly, to be a paperback writer in the age of TikTok. And yet, all I ever wanted to be was a paperback writer. Affordable, portable books that would eventually get remaindered or traded or dumped into a charity shop where someone like the fourteen year old me could find them and discover new worlds and that crucial sense of not being alone.
“NINE BELLS paperback writer,” Warren Ellis
Currently reading: ONE FOR SORROW, by Jamie McKelvie.