Strange Scrawls, by Connor Lee McLean

Strange Scrawls, by Connor Lee McLean Creative Nonfiction [email protected] Tue, 12/12/2023 - 16:11 Photo courtesy of the authorReading a secondhand copy of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, a reader encounters another consciousness in the margins. I’d like to say that I stumbled upon this book on a rainy night as it lay alone in the gutter, but the truth is that a regrettable ex pawned off this paperback like another pretentious thing to eventually jettison. While the front cover still bears the author’s name, it has yellowed from sleek pearl to dusty bone, stippled with innumerable stains that could very well be rheum or nasal mucous from a dozen previous readers. If you’ve ever perused a secondhand bookstore, this fits the description of a typical binding on the shelves. But what distinguishes this old copy of The Mezzanine is the annotations left by a former owner who signed their government name in the cyan of a Crayola marker—like graffiti scribbled on boulders and the ruts of wagon wheels that commemorate those pilgrims who came before to navigate this narrative route. And when I finally embarked on my journey through this slim piece of literature, I found myself veering off course into an unexpected detour that is only to be found in this copy of Nicholson Baker’s 1988 debut novel. While proceeding over the footsteps of an English student whose name came to represent a disembodied intellect, I began to address my... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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