But, not only are they all very well written, they all feel exceptionally fresh and original: these are stories we haven't read before, and that is very exciting".
Als's piece is sending me to Shange's writings, which I'm only sorry I haven't read before; Davis's painting, with the theatre name cropped out, has also been used as a paperback cover.
If you're an O'Brian fan, there's nothing here you haven't read before, except perhaps the menu for a formal dinner given by an Argentine grandee, which includes lobster in a bitter chocolate sauce and 70 freshly harvested guinea pigs.
Buy a few magazines that you haven't read before, and pack them as well.
A good place to find long text selections you haven't read before is on your favorite news website.
Although her scripts contain humour, she says the book, which she had not read before, "profoundly shocked" her and is more "terrifying and brutal" than she expected.
It was nothing we hadn't read before, but the timing of the latest obituary was particularly strange.
"There's something terrifying about the language of the book, like a fear that you'll run aground while reading a word you hadn't read before," said Téa Obreht, the twentieth reader, who looked relieved at her performance.
It may be that my style of reading has changed since Fever, but I was just bored reading Delirium; nothing stood out as amazing, nothing that I hadn't read before, and for that reason, I've given it the negative review I have – that's not to say you won't enjoy it; it's very likely that you will.
