Coast-to-coast commentary about books
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Contra the NYT List (sorta)
My own Top 100 books for the 21st Century
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On the Road with Zimmy and Others
Reading Sean Wilentz, Jamaica Kincaid and others while driving across America
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Overthinking Things
The peculiar discomfort of disliking a beloved novel
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Recentering the Story of America
Reading Howard French’s passionate and angry history of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, Werner Herzog’s life story, and more
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Award Winners
Reading some Pulitzer Prize winners from years gone by, plus the work of an iconic Brazilian novelist, and a scathing drama about race in America
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A Chekhov Project, Completed
My year of reading the short fiction of Anton Chekhov
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A (Year?) of Reading Chekhov
A reading plan for 2022: Tackle the complete shelf of Chekhov’s short stories and novellas, all 201 of them
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Colwin Rebooted
Reading the breezy short stories of Katherine Heiny
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Ecstatic Sentences
Experiencing the tidal sentences of Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other”
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Hey, I Worry About the Planet, too
Reading Richard Powers’ arborial epic, “The Overstory”
Far From Brooklyn 