Reading Log
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2023 Year in Reading and Reviews
By Jay Innis Murray So, that was 2023. I finished 60 books this year. Some of them were short, but 60 is a high number for me. My website does not seem to generate much browsing. That’s either a bug or a feature. I’ll let somebody else decide, but I’ll use this opportunity to link Continue reading
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Here I recommend Grand Tour (2023) by Elisa Gonzalez
My friend William Flesch writes in the Los Angeles Review of Books, “Elisa Gonzalez may very well be a great poet, and, like all great poets, she is haunted by poetry—the poetry of Homer, of John Ashbery, of… Marilyn Monroe…” This is in his superb review (link at bottom of page) of Grand Tour, the Continue reading
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To See the World Estranged Through Another Writer’s Mind – A Review of Other Minds and Other Stories (2023) by Bennett Sims
By Jay Innis Murray I’m feeling unusually self-conscious as I prepare this appreciation of the new collection of stories from Bennett Sims called Other Minds and Other Stories. See, I’m an underliner. I write in the books I read. I leave, too, significant quantities of margin notes. Some of my book-loving friends have an almost Continue reading
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Forgetting Curve Project – Entry 1
About Our Beloved Kin by Lisa Brooks. Towards recognition. This is a superb book. Winner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize. Quote from the prize committee: “In Our Beloved Kin, her immersive account of the oft-studied colonial American conflict known as King Philip’s War, Brooks imaginatively illuminates submerged indigenous histories. Written with an experimental and imagistic Continue reading
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Mid-Year 2023 Reading List
I’ve finished 34 books half way through the year. Not a sprinter’s pace, but it is more titles than I finished in all of 2022. The list is below. There are some highlights. There are always highlights. I finished two books by the late Mark Fisher and also read probably 70% of his k-punk blog. Continue reading
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