日本語で読むということ

collection of very short pieces, maybe interesting if you like the author

This book is a collection of the author's non fiction writing that was originally published in various magazines or newspapers in the 1990s and 2000s. It’s been arranged thematically (writing about books she’s read, autobiographical/memoir type stuff, writing about her own books, and about work in general) but there’s no particular throughline or argument, so it’s a good book to pick up, read an essay or two and then not touch for another week. The pieces vary in length from as short as a single