Close Reader: An interview with Christine

On weird lit, braking for crones, and owning an indie bookshop

In this series, I ask some of my favorite Substack essayists, Bookstagrammers, and writers to share their reading and writing processes and habits, and tell us about the literary ideas they’re spending time with these days.

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