Reading to Feel: Breath, Memory, and Joan Didion’s ‘Notes to John’
We read not to remember, but to feel: to remain suspended in that intimate proof that something—whether in the writer or the reader—is still breathing.
Book Reviews
Books
Bouquiphiles
Moves
About traveling with books, especially when they are like fragments of a writer’s life, chapters of a biography whose meaning matters only to oneself.
Bouquiphiles
Collisions
A melancholic song to the absence of Spanish books in the United States, secondhand bookstores, and the loss of words in bilingual collisions.
Loose Pages
Citario Nietzsche
On the anniversary of Friedrich Nietzsche’s birth, this citarium evokes his idol-shattering hammer, the lion that gives birth to the child, and the eternal return.
Bouquiphiles
My Library of Alexandria
The impossible library: memories of a reading fever in Santiago, Chile.
Bouquiphiles
Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading II (Final)
The library is a refuge for unfulfilled desires, renewed readings, and losses due to exile, intertwining literary ambition, writerly vanity, and cultural fragility.
Bookspel
The Book House, For Sale!
House for sale in Ohio decorated with 7,000 books as an ode to the appearance of reading.
Inquisitions
Javier Castro Flórez: “My consistency as a reader has shaped my need and pleasure as an editor”
Newcastle was born as an act of resistance and has become the personal project of its editor, Javier Castro Flórez, a passionate reader who seeks to share the happiness he finds in books.
Bouquiphiles
Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading I
The library, that labyrinth of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, reflects the insatiable curiosity and chaotic order of a life devoted to reading.
Bouquiphiles
Prose from the Wunderkammer I: Avant-Dire
Book collecting is an intimate and symbolic practice which, by valuing each book as a unique object with its own material biography, turns the library into a sensory autobiography of the collector.