The Break In The Book
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3 min readMar 9, 2020
Fate splits old paperback bindings, such that they will then always beg to fall open at the break in the spine glue. Such is the case with my 30-year-old first-printing copy of Lydia Davis’s collected short stories, Break It Down.
The binding broke towards the end of “The House Plans,” a story of unrequited-yet-unabandoned dreams of pastoral solitude, after a tedious and…
