Matt Snee's Blog, page 84
March 10, 2020
Currently reading.
Currently reading – Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. There are many great Russian writers – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol and many others. But Pushkin fathered them all. I actually saw Tchaikovsky’s Onegin opera at the NY Met with a friend when I lived in Brooklyn.
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Currently reading – Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch is an American writer born in 1963. This is a book of her short stories.
March 8, 2020
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Currently reading – The Kingdom of this World, by Alejo Carpentier. Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist born in 1904. Part of the Latin American “Boom” in literature of the 20th century, he died in 1980.
March 7, 2020
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Currently reading – Nevada by Imogen Binnie. Binnie is a young American writer and this novel is about a trans woman living in New York who takes a journey out West.
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Currently reading – The Art of Atari, by Tim Lapetino. Well, I did say I was going to read more art books. 
March 5, 2020
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Currently reading – Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys. Rhys was born on the Caribbean island of Dominica in 1890, but spent her adult life in England. Known for her dark stories of women, she is a bit of a cult writer. This novel is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
March 4, 2020
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Currently reading – Steps by Jerzi Kosinski. Konsinski was a Polish -American writer born in 1933. He died in 1991. I read this book about twenty years ago, but I found it on my shelf and didn’t remember much about it, so I figured I’d read it again.
March 2, 2020
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Currently reading – Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison. This will be the fourth book I have read by the Nobel Prize winner.
February 29, 2020
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Currently reading – Last Stories by William Trevor. Born in 1928, Trevor was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He died in 2016. This was his last book.
February 28, 2020
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Currently reading – The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers. Born in 1917, McCullers was a Southern writer most famous for her novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Infirm for most of her life, she died in 1967 at fifty years old after suffering two strokes.
