Tag: Slightly Foxed

  • Being told what to read…

    I have read the suggestion that one should avoid reading newly published books and focus on those at least 10 years old. The premise being that if they are still around then, well, they must be worth reading. It is so expensive to publish a book that it is more and more common for print […]

  • My Salinger Year – Joanna Rakoff

    It is always good to receive news from Slightly Foxed. The book that caught my eye this time was called ‘My Salinger Year’ written by Joanna Rakoff. It is a memoir of a year spent working in an esteemed literary agency in New York City in the 1990s. The author was an intern, an assistant […]

  • October 2020

    I wonder if you are familiar with the term ‘slightly foxed’. It is frequently used by sellers of second hand books and refers to the gingery, freckle like marks that can appear on the pages of a book, usually near the spine. They are caused by deterioration in the quality of the paper, damp and […]