Absolute Beginners in the Bookshop

Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes

"Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts." - Philip Roth

 

Betwixt The Forelands in the Bookshop

"My page was too white

My ink was too thin

The day wouldn't write

What the night pencilled in" 

by Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing