What the Margins Know
A secondhand book with notes in it is two books at once. On the private conversations readers leave for strangers.
Books
Rereading Middlemarch at Forty
At twenty I read George Eliot for Dorothea. At forty I read it for everyone else in town, and found a better book.
Walden, Without the Cabin
Thoreau is easy to mock and harder to dismiss. What Walden still offers a reader with a mortgage and no pond.