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September 4, 2015

Cambodia Part 1 1997

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Published on September 04, 2015 07:18

August 13, 2015

Sabbatical Reading Jan-July 2015

From most recent:

How I Shed My Skin Jim Grimsley

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Fire Next Time James Baldwin

Loitering Charles D'Ambrosio

The Circle Dave Eggers

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Your Face in Mine Jess Row

Mislaid Nell Zink

Moby Dick !!!

To Show and To Tell Phillip Lopate

Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih

Boys of My Youth Jo Ann Beard

Best American Essay 2014

The Last Illusion Porochista Khakpour

Sunrise Victoria Hislop

Memories (tales of Cyprus)

1984 George Orwell

The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

The Emperor of all Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee

Trip Through Your Wires Sarah Layden

Living Beautifully Fema Chodron

The Mindfulness Sampler

We Need New Names Noviolet Bulawayo

To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

Bitter Lemons Lawrence Durrell

Dear Thief Sarah Harvey

Middlemarch George Eliot

Ongoingness Sarah Manguso

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hundred Year House Rebecca Makkai

Deep Water Patricia Highsmith
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Waking Up Sam Harris

Best American Short Stories 2014

Indivisible by Fanny Howe

The Girl on The Train Paula Hawkins

Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak
Citizen Claudia Rankine
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo
Bluettes Maggie Nelson

Outlines by Rachel Cusk

Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
10:04 Ben Lerner
Click Rebecca Cook

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Published on August 13, 2015 20:23

August 1, 2015

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert | Boston Review

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert | Boston Review:

“Traditional travel writing surely needed to be infiltrated and broken apart, its masculine tropes challenged. But the popular female travel narrative has overcorrected in a serious way; these writers are experts only on their own selves.”

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Published on August 01, 2015 06:47