Matt Snee's Blog, page 80
May 4, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence. Born in 1926, Laurence was a Canadian novelist and a prominent figure in Canadian literature. This novel is about a ninety-year-old woman reflecting on her life. Laurence died in 1987.
May 2, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – The Best American Short Stories 2015, edited by T. C. Boyle.
May 1, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – The Poems of Herman Melville. Melville is of course most famous for his titanic novel Moby Dick, but he also wrote poetry.
April 29, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer born in 1968. This novel is about a Vietnamese cook who works for famous Modernist writer Gertrude Stein and her lover, Alice B. Toklas.
April 28, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. Born in 1899, Borges was an Argentine writer best well known for his mythical, mind blowing short stories. I read this book before, about fifteen years ago, but I decided to read it again. Borges died in 1986.
April 27, 2020
Currently reading
Currently reading – Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. Born in Pittsburgh in 1874, Stein was a Modernist poet, playwright, and novelist who spent most of her life in France with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. A big influence on Hemingway, she died in 1946.
April 25, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin. Born in 1924, Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, and activist, and one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He died in 1987 in France, where he had made his home since 1970.
April 24, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada. Almada is an Argentine writer born in 1973. She lives in Buenos Aires.
April 22, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a British writer and winner of the Nobel Prize. Born in Japan in 1954, he moved to The U.K. when he was five. This novel is a sort of fairytale.
April 21, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – Pen America’s Best Debut Short Stories 2019.
