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Clippings

April 8, 2018


Years ago I borrowed this copy of Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler from my father-in-law, and when I opened it up I found Calvino’s 1985 NYTimes obit and stories from a 1983 Harper’s.


I was so surprised and delighted by these unexpected artifacts that I decided to start saving clippings in my own books. Here’s my brand new copy of John Ashbery’s The Knew What They Wanted, in which I stuffed a NYTimes review and a photo of his collage desk.


Who knows whether I or anybody else will ever open the book again after reading it, but now it’s a treasure box. Its own little archive…

Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged: BOOKS, italo calvino, john ashbery, paper, reading

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