from freelancer_frank

This is a book about space, time, story telling and civic responsibility. It is a flawless collection of conceptual pieces, each written in the kind of clear prose that belies the work that went into it. Each piece presents fresh insights and provokes new thoughts. It is difficult to understand h...

from pamelad

There is a statue in Paris of Marcel Aymé, the writer of this wonderful collection of short stories which was first published in 1943 when Paris was under German occupation and the war seemed as though it would go on forever. In the title story, a lowly clerk discovers that he can walk through wa...

from freelancer_frank

This is a book about space, time, story telling and civic responsibility. It is a flawless collection of conceptual pieces, each written in the kind of clear prose that belies the work that went into it. Each piece presents fresh insights and provokes new thoughts. It is difficult to understand h...

from pamelad

There is a statue in Paris of Marcel Aymé, the writer of this wonderful collection of short stories which was first published in 1943 when Paris was under German occupation and the war seemed as though it would go on forever. In the title story, a lowly clerk discovers that he can walk through wa...