The Polish Book Institute

Mira Marcinów, prose-writer, philosopher, author of Historia polskiego szaleństwa (“The History of Polish Madness”) and her prose debut Bezmatek (“Motherlessness”), reveals what she reads to her children, how she manages to read purely for herself, why she shouldn't read at night; she also talks about the primacy of form over content, insensitivity to plot, and about hiding her books under her bed.