Matt Snee's Blog, page 82
April 8, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – Spill Simmer Falter Wither, by Sara Baume. Baume is an Irish writer born in 1984. This book is about the friendship between an outcast man and a one-eyed dog in a seaside town.
April 7, 2020
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Currently reading – Lost Girls, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Melinda Gebbie. Written by the creator of Watchmen, this sexually explicit graphic novel features the erotic adventures of an elderly Alice (of Wonderland), an adult Wendy (Peter Pan), and Dorothy (of Oz). It came out in 2007, but I bought it and didn’t read it. I’m glad I got it at the time though, because I don’t think they make it in this huge, beautiful edition anymore.
April 6, 2020
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Currently reading – Teaching a a Stone to Talk, by Annie Dillard. Born in 1945, Dillard writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize. This is a book of her nonfiction.
April 4, 2020
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Currently reading – All Aunt Hager’s Children, by Edward P. Jones. Jones is an African-American writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He was born and raised in Washington D.C., which is where most of his stories take place.
April 2, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. Born in 1882, Woolf was a titan of twentieth century literature, but her work can be demanding. However, she was an uncompromising artist and a passionate advocate for female writers. She died in 1941.
March 31, 2020
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Currently reading – Real Life by Brandon Taylor. Taylor is a young American writer, and this book is about a gay black man pursuing a PhD in biochemistry at a midwestern university.
March 30, 2020
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Currently reading – Shiloh & Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Born in 1940, Mason is a writer and critic from Kentucky. These stories were mentioned a lot in some books I read about short story theory, so I decided to read them myself. Pretty great so far!
March 29, 2020
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Currently reading – A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan. Born in 1901, Anna Kavan was a British aristocrat, heroin addict, and one of the great literary enigmas of the twentieth century. Most of the biographical information I have found about her conflicts with other sources. Anna Kavan wasn’t even her real name – it was Helen Woods. She stole the name “Anna Kavan” from a character in one of her own books. But she wanted to be a mystery, considered herself a fictional character. She and her work are endlessly strange.
March 28, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – Machines in the Head: Selected Stories by Anna Kavan. This will be the second book I have read by this crazy British writer.
March 27, 2020
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Currently reading – Lot by Bryan Washington. Washington is a young African-American writer raised in Houston, which is where these stories take place.
