Matt Snee's Blog, page 86
February 14, 2020
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Currently reading – Ramayana, illustrated by Sanjay Patel. This is an ancient Indian epic. I’ve had this book for a while, but there’s a lot of competition on my bookshelf. Decided to finally read it.
February 12, 2020
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Currently reading – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeannette Winterson. Winterson is an English writer born in 1959 and this her memoir. The title is what her mom asked when Winterson came out to her as a lesbian.
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Currently reading – Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge. Tsuge is a Japanese manga artist born in 1941. His work is considered “alternative manga” and features naturalistic stories of down and out people. This book depicts life in the Tokyo slums in the 1960s.
February 11, 2020
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Currently reading – The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington. Born in Britain in 1917, Carrington was a surrealist artist and writer who lived most of her life in Mexico City. She died in 2011 at the ripe old age of ninety-four.
February 10, 2020
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Currently reading – I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. I have mixed feelings about metaphors. I like them in other people’s writing but not my own. For one reason, I don’t trust them. But also, I feel they distract from the story – the reader is reminded they are ingesting language. But I’m trying to study them and change my perspective, because they are powerful tools.
February 8, 2020
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Currently reading – What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah. Arimah is a Nigerian-American writer born in England in 1983. This, her debut book, was published in 2017. She lives in Minnesota.
February 7, 2020
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Currently reading – Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges. Born in 1899, Borges was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short story writer notable for being the progenitor of magical realism and the Latin American literature “boom” in the second half of the twentieth century, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Clarice Lispector, among many others.
February 6, 2020
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Currently reading – The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir. De Beauvoir was a French philosopher born in 1908, and most well known in her lifetime for being the partner of existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. However, decades after their deaths, her reputation has begun to eclipse his.
February 5, 2020
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Currently reading – The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud. Malamud was a Jewish writer born in Brooklyn in 1914, and is most famous for his novel The Natural, which was turned into a great movie with Robert Redford. These are his short stories. He died in 1986.
February 3, 2020
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Currently reading – Dear Life by Alice Munro. I picked up this book by the Nobel Prize winner specifically because it had this story, “Train”, which I read last year in an anthology. It’s one of the most astonishing stories I have ever read, so subtle and yet so devastating at once.
