i'm asking: what books have directly led to an interest in other books/art?

an open thread!

Hi all. I don't think I've ever used the newsletter explicitly as a thread function, but I had a question for the group that I've been curious about. A couple of days ago I finished reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey (more on this on a different newsletter, possibly) and in it there's a character who, for reasons unimportant to the here and now, occasio…