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A Year in Reading: Max Porter

A combination of factors (leaving my editorial job, a new book out, traveling a lot, being sent a great many books, small children, existential crises, moral panics, a cold office, bad knees, a guilt complex) means the structure of my reading life has crumbled. I’m all over the place. Undisciplined. Books everywhere. Books about ecological disaster sitting next to old copies of . Mad panic that I might not have time to read again so I’m hiding in the toilet reading while I should be getting my

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