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Currently reading – The Beggar Maid, by Alice Munro. Munro is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.

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Currently reading – The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson. Johnson was an American writer born in 1949, and best known for his story collection, Jesus’ Son, which was adapted into a fucked up movie. He died in 2017.

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Currently reading – Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. Melchor is a Mexican writer born in 1982. This novel is about the insane number of women that are murdered in Mexico every year.

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Currently reading – “I Am Your Brother”: Short Story Studies, by Charles E. May. May is a leading short story theorist.

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Currently reading – Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz. Born in 1978, Diaz is a Mojave American poet and former professional basketball player.

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Currently reading – Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Hamid is a British-Pakistani writer born in 1971. This book is a sort of magical realist tale about two young people in an unnamed country on the brink of civil war.

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Currently reading – The Best American Short Stories 2014, edited by Jennifer Egan. Sometimes I just crave short stories. Hopefully I haven’t read this one before.

Drafts

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Interesting line in one of Szymborka’s poems. The Song of Songs is a book in the Bible, and is unique in that its subject matter is a celebration of sexual love. Believers claim it’s an allegory for the love of God or Israel, but…. really? It’s very famous and beautiful, but what Szymborska reminds us here is that even classic, ancient works of literature were WRITTEN, and had their inspirations and rewrites and edits. Nothing is created fully formed.

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Currently reading – Poems: New and Collected, by Wistawa Szymborska. Szymborska was a Polish poet born in 1923 and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 2012.

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Currently reading – Monstress by Lysley Tenorio. Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer who lives in San Francisco.