" It’s tough to sit down and be quiet and focus, when so much is happening in the world."

Muse Letter No. 23

MUSE INTERVIEW : : with Anna from magicpages

Like so many people I follow on Instagram, I cannot tell you how and where I found the account from Anna aka @magicpages but soon after I hit “follow”, I realised that she does something quite special in the literary scene of Instagram.

Anna does not curate a regular “bookstagram”, with reviews and photos of book covers, to persuade people to buy. Instead she photographs pages and writes about her thoughts while reading the books rather than judging them in the end. Reading her posts is like discovering the books simultaneously with her. Open to explore and discuss.

This is a condensation of a conversation we had over Zoom the other day.

We both love Deborah Levys two memoir / essays “Things I don’t want to know” and “The Cost of Living”: How did you discover her? 

I’m not entirely sure. But I do remember that I was browsing through my favourite bookshop in Berlin and the cover of “The Cost of Living” really intrigued me. I think it was somet…