A Reader’s Insight: Ian J. Battaglia (Chicago Review of Books).

 

If books have any magic at all, it’s the ability to bring a reader so seamlessly close to another’s lived experiences and memories – even fictional ones – that it’s as if some of the wisdom, power, and overall emotional tenor of that life was your own. It’s this empathetic space, between memories and dreams, in which books seem to be most potent to me.

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The Resonance of Memory in “Tokyo Ueno Station”

Books & Brains

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