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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.

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Currently reading – “The Refugees” by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American writer who came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee. This is a collection of short stories.

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Currently reading – “Soon” by Pam Durban. Durban is an American writer born in 1947. This is a collection of her short stories.

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Currently reading – “Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed. Reed is an American novelist, poet, and essayist born in 1938. This novel is a satirical vision of black and white relations in the 1920s.

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Currently reading – “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” by Sui Sin Far. “Sui Sin Far” was the pen name of Edith Maude Eaton, born in 1865, the daughter of an English ship merchant and a Chinese mother who had once been a slave before being rescued by missionaries. Eaton wrote about Chinese-American immigrants when anti-Chinese sentiment was very high.

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Currently reading – “Lighthead” by Terrance Hayes. Hayes is an American poet born in 1971, and this book won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010.

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Currently reading – “The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Story Theory and Analysis” edited by Per Winther, Jakob Lothe, and Hans H. Skei.