Currently reading – According to the Law by Solvej Balle. Just look at this poor piece of shit I got when I ordered a used copy of this obscure Danish book. This is some sad, unwanted shit.
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Currently reading – Cleanness by Garth Greenwell. Greenwell is an American poet, author, and critic born in 1978. This book depicts a gay man’s adventures in love and sex in Bulgaria.
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Currently reading – Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag, one of the most important intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century. This was her first book of essays, published in 1966, and it has been in print ever since.
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Currently reading – “Rusty Brown” by Chris Ware. Ware is an AMAZING graphic novelist. Last time I read his work was almost twenty years ago when I lived in San Francisco and plowed through his “Jimmy Corrigan.”
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Currently reading – “Gorilla, My Love” by Toni Cade Bambara. Born in Harlem in 1939, Bambara was an author and activist. She died in 1995.
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Currently reading – “Myth and Meaning” by Claude Levi-Strauss. Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) was Belgian born and the most important anthropologist of the 20th century. He argued that there were no structural differences between the so-called “savage” mind and the “civilized” mind. This book is about the centrality of myth in culture.
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Currently reading – “Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies” by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi. This is a book examining character in literature by three leading female academics.
