Issue #2

• The first part of Voyage Around My Room, written by Xavier de Maistre during a 6-week period of isolation in 1790. >>Order the book. >>Are you writing an isolation text? 

• 'Between Sleeping and Waking' by Georges Perec. 

• Lynne Tillman leaves her house. 

• Submit to Starling (if you're under 25). 

• "To write, and to read, is to forever cross thresholds" (translation matters). 

• Sophie Lewis on the craft of translation. >>This Tilting World by Collette Fellous, translated by Sophie Lewis, will be delivered to you once the emergency has been downgraded. 

• Some excellent films (for free) at Kanopy — sign in with your library card. 

• Some books on shelves in large rooms. 

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