Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks review – ‘it only makes you want to read more’

Tim Parks’s brilliant, erudite essays about the role of writing in the digital age demand to be read

• • Tim Adams - The Observer, Sunday 16 November 2014

Tim Parks: ‘no hand that feeds him is left without perfectly formed tooth marks’. Photograph: Alex Macnaughton/Rex Features

For about three years now, Tim Parks, the English novelist and critic based in Italy, has been posting a regular blog for the New York Review of Books about the business and the purpose of writing and reading. Parks is a perfectionist, and each of the 1,000-odd words of his blogs is chosen with the same care that has always attended his “real” writing. The pieces collected in this book are posts, though, rather than essays – the medium itself is pertinent since Parks is concerned mostly with the place of literature in a digital and global culture.
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