💂‍♀️A Dispatch From London's Book Fair (2023)

“Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.”

~ from W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

It is said that we should be eternally grateful to the Stourbridge book fair, as it was there that Sir Isaac Newton purchased a book that altered the course of his life and of humanity.

The boo…