Torchlight Journal - An Argument for Bookish Love

The FICA Reading Room invites Torchlight, an online journal, to inhabit Project_Space through September and October 2019, and make their compelling case for libraries and books. Looking at the world through a readerly lens, Torchlight is a multi-media project that celebrates the pleasures of reading and the ways in which the many forms of the written word allow one to grow, learn and embrace new experiences.

Through this collaboration, FICA and Torchlight look forward to engaging with individuals and other initiatives working with books and libraries, and with writers and readers as well - inviting responses, reflections and conversation. Across its 10 issues, the journal has brought together a wide variety of thought on the relationships we forge with books and spaces of reading, while also exploring the manner in which the way we read has evolved with changes in form and technology.

Torchlight Journal @ Project_Space is a showcase of their archive of essays, poetry, comics, art and inventions, through an interactive display, performances, interventions, workshops and more.