The reading room
The Interlocutor
A companion for the catalogue: it answers from the papers alone, cites them by number, and says plainly when they are silent.
Put a question to the press. The Interlocutor is asked to speak only from the papers — citing them by number, quoting from them directly, and saying so where the catalogue has nothing to say. It is a companion to the reading, not a replacement for it: each number it cites is a door, and the paper behind the door is the point.
Not yet open
The Interlocutor has not yet taken its chair. The papers, meanwhile, receive visitors at any hour.
☞ The catalogueWhen it's ready · Free
The letter
No calendar, no quota, no filler. A vault of substance, sent at the pace of thought, not the pace of the feed.
The Interlocutor speaks from the catalogue, not from authority. For anything that matters, read the paper — and for anything it cannot answer, write to me.