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Wednesday 15 April 2020

letters from lockdown

On the margins


Beyond the actual words in a book, there are the notes, asides and doodles added by readers. The literary critic Lucy Scholes is a devoted fan of this marginalia – and a practitioner, too


▶ Letters from Lockdown: Lucy Scholes, 5’54

Read the full transcript of Lucy’s letter here.

 

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