“I feel a kinship with readers who leave their marks, like calling cards, in the margins of used books.”
I can’t open a book with highlighting or margin notes and not wonder about this mysterious someone who read or didn’t read, liked or didn’t like this very book I’m embarking on. My love of used–second-hand, pre-owned–books is the subject of “Shows Light Wear,” which was published in the print journal Gold Man Review last November and now made available here.
Alice Lowe -- still writing 