THE HAPPY READER is a unique magazine about reading for anyone who wishes to stay inspired, informed and entertained. With beautiful typography, the magazine is a design object which celebrates the pure pleasure of reading and the calming luxury of being offline.

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.

The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic work of literature from an array of surprising and invigorating angles.

Each issue is split into two halves. The first half is an in-depth interview with a book fanatic and the second half gets under the skin of one classic work of literature.

ISSUE N^O. 15

Beaches, books and juniper berries: this season’s cover star SARAH JESSICA PARKER is photographed by Roe Etheridge in Amaganesett, Long Island

Our Book of the Season, JAPANESE GHOST STORIES, is centre of gravity to a series of hallucinatory artworks; correspondents around the world compile an obsessive yet fragmentary portrait of the book’s odd author, Lafcadio Hearn. Contributors include Lieko Shiga, John Self, Travis Elborough, Bess Lovejoy and Moeko Fujii.

PART 1

To be seen

Snippets

The Interview : SARAH JESSICA PARKER by Paul Flynn —‘I will do anything to not finish a book.’

Staff picks

PART 2

Apparitions by Lieko Shiga—Phantasmagorical photographs

Born by Seb Emina —Lefkada, Ionia

Abandoned by John Self —Dublin, Ireland

Hired by Travis Elborough —Cincinnati, Ohio

Possessed by Bess Lovejoy —New Orleans, Louisiana

Resurrected by Moeko Fujii —Tokyo, Japan

Letters

An addictive tragedy

Issue overview