I tell him I’m waiting for my dog who has found some interesting smells a little way back, to find me. (‘Reading his wee-mails,’ I think of saying parroting a woman with a wire-hair Parson Jack Russell, but don’t.)

And then:

1. A Perfect Day for Bananafish the young man put on his robe, closed the lapels tight, and jammed his towel into his pocket. he picked...
2. The Tale of the Unknown Island And the sailors, she asked, No one came, as you can see, But did some at least say they would...
3. Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer Post addressed to Jonathan Fitch came through my letter-box, and that was who I was. I had a National Insurance...
4. The History of Mr Polly The essential thing of those fifteen long years of shopkeeping is Mr Polly, well athwart the counter of his rather...
5. What It’s Like Arthur Russell was one of the original electronic music experimenters, as well as an extraordinary cellist who accompanied Allen Ginsberg,...
6. Proust and the Squid Underlying the brain’s ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally...