Should I Call First?

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre BayardThe Tiv teach us about the internal books we have as a collective... The inner book is strived for as an individual, but only seen in fragments, and reworked the moment books are read by our imaginations...Every writer who has spoken to one of their readers has experienced an uncanny valley of what they meant by what they wrote, versus what they hear back about what they wrote according to the reader...The anxiety of the writer increases as we discuss his work ... you've got the wrong guy!..The only reasonable thing to do is to praise a book as ambiguously as possible...Boredom by Alberto MoraviaGoing down a staircase while expecting another step, causing the mind and body to break pace with each other, and stumble...He [Balestrieri] memorized the number, but went back to the address book from time to time to run his finger over it and remember the first time...A man who was dead and who she knew was dead...Is that you,…