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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gabriel’s Dream
This passage is excerpted from my short-story, “Gabriel’s Dream,” (Assure Press), available to read in full by purchasing this issue of Iris Literary Journal.
The house’s back gate whines like a cat. Gabriel’s toes slip out his sandals, cool on a stone step. He grins—uncertain if God has a voice, or if simply motion in any direction, in every direction—like the wind. Like the wind, he decides.
A woo
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Palm Lines
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| Romano’s touching elegy to her late husband is so intimate that, at times, it feels like intruding into her most private thoughts. A testament to not only the honesty of her prose, but her ability to enclose the reader with only fleeting details of t ...more | |
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In Farthest Seas (Pushkin Press Classics):
"A precursor to Ernaux's autobiographical fiction without the sociological underpinnings. Extremely solipsistic (a positive). Certain fragments evoke a sublime universality, of life's instability and death as omnipresent. But I just do not connect to "
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"In Farthest Seas is a bit of a challenge. I enjoyed the vignettes but found some of the references hard to follow. Once I let go of trying to follow all of them, I really enjoyed the author's intimate, emotional prose. I also liked the general struct"
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| Nobel Prize winner Miłosz's semi-autobiographical foray into fiction is tenderly crafted and poised, even astounding on a sentence level, but meanders often and drags in its repetition. I realized early on that the story is language-driven and leisur ...more | |
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