ES:
Dalkey Archive has just published your most recent book, titled Mirror Gazing, which, to my eye, is both a literary study and a personal story about the peculiar practice of watching yourself reading. Tell me about this book.
WM:
I’ve come to realize that this book is much more about the practice of reading than it is of cataloguing mirror scenes over a period of 35 years. It’s rooted in reading as a daily practice, as a way of life. It’s also about the kinds of ways that we inveterate, obsessional readers project ourselves both into the books that we read and into our reading practices.
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