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In my job, every day feels like Christmas

We’ve had a flood in the office books’ cupboard. Fortunately, most of them are kept in metal cabinets that do duty as bookshelves; so there wasn’t too much damage. There are, as you might imagine, quite a few books in our cupboard, however; and shedloads more — that’s the technical term — arrive every day.

I’ve not written much about the physicality of being a literary editor. Perhaps you have an idea of me living the life of the mind: but you can’t feed the mind without using the body. The books arrive in grey sacks that are nearly as tall as I am, though that’s not saying much. Usually there are two every day; sometimes three or four. Week in, week out. How do…

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