PLANE-SPOTTING
CC BY-SA 3.0 Danielebaj
Is there a particular place that affected who you became as a writer? For Italian novelist and poet Andrea Banjani, one house in particular was formative. Writing in Domus, Andrea recalls the weekends spent in a house near Turin airport where he sat upstairs, with a friend, in an attic watching the planes. ‘I especially remember that world split in two,’ he writes. ‘The kitchen and two bedrooms downstairs... and our post upstairs that was like a tree house, a world we created above the clouds.