Benjamin Myers: ‘My comfort read? Viz’
My earliest reading memory I’m six years old, up a tree, reading The Travels of Magnus Pole by Jonathan Wills. No one can reach me.
Mar 03, 2023
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My earliest reading memory
I’m six years old, up a tree, reading The Travels of Magnus Pole by Jonathan Wills. No one can reach me. The post-psychedelic aesthetic and oddness of 1970s children’s books still fills me with a nostalgic glow.
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, about a city boy who runs away to the Catskills, sparked something inside, as did
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