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Ada Marlow
Essayist and recovering speed reader. Writes about books, margins, and the slow parts of the day.
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On Rereading
The first time through a book you read to find out what happens. Every time after that, you read to find out who you were.
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Marginalia and Other Small Rebellions
In praise of writing in books, underlining badly, and arguing with authors who cannot argue back.
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On the Pleasure of Slow Reading
A case for reading fewer books more slowly, on the theory that speed was never the point of a sentence.