I was asked by a publication to keep a reading diary for four days, and those days happened to be while I was in Istanbul. The woman I spoke with… Read more »

Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »