…in which I undertake *another* Penguin reading project!!! #penguinnewwriting

Despite the fact that I have barely dented the existing Penguin Projects I have pages for on the Ramblings, I seem to have inadvertently committed to another one! I could blame Liz at Adventures in reading, running and working from home, since she kindly sent me one of these volumes for the 1949 Club; but in truth, I have the collecting mentality and can rarely resist the temptation to start a new one. The volumes in question are The Penguin New Writing; literary periodicals released between 1940 and 1950 and edited by John Lehmann, they contained all manner of interesting stories, poems, non-fiction, reviews and illustrations. My thoughts on the 1949 one I read are here. Liz had sourced my issue from a lovely bookshop local to her, The Book Tower, and the friendly owner Jane had apparently dug out a lot of 1949 books for Liz to check out for the club – how wonderful to have a pal like that! So when Liz messaged me to say that Jane had a number of other issues available and was I…