'The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny
Ayumi Shibuya offers an extraordinary service: he reunites the living with their dearly departed
Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight
His diaries reveal alchemy
MARG1N Issue 2: Traces Andy Prentice 'The Diary Of A BooksellerMARG1N is an annual Southeast Asian film magazine by writers, filmmakers, and artists. Our second issue honors memories and gazes that drift through Singapore and Vietnam. Through essays, visual scripts, archives, and more, TRACES unearths the flotsam, jetsam, and derelict that churns throughout or beneath todays cinematic currents. Traces are fragmentary by nature. You can never deduce a comprehensive view from a trace. Traces gesture, shock, defy,