![]() ![]() The other morning, I was so engrossed in a letter from Jen that I missed my subway stop. The book is so perfectly realized that it’s easy to fall under its spell. Straka, really, and what does he have to do with Eric’s sinister dissertation advisor?-you have to read not just “Ship of Theseus,” but all of Jen and Eric’s handwritten notes. To solve the book’s central mystery-who is V. Between the pages, they’ve slipped postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters-even a hand-drawn map written on a napkin from a coffee shop. Open it up, though, and you see that the real story unfolds in Straka’s margins, where two readers, Eric and Jen, have left notes for each other. From the outside, it looks like an old library book, called “Ship of Theseus” and published, in 1949, by V. Abrams and Doug Dorst, may be the best-looking book I’ve ever seen. ![]()
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