Category: What I’m reading
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Fall Read: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In reviewing a Pulitzer Prize–winning book (the winner in fiction in 2007), I’m almost certain that whatever I say about it has already been said. Despite its popularity, I knew very little about the book before I started reading. I knew it was about a father and son traveling down the road in a post-apocalyptic…
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New Year’s Day Read: Rock Crystal
It’s the first day of 2021, and I spent part of it reading Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter in the NYRB Classics series (translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore and introduced by W. H. Auden). Two small heroes, the son and daughter of a shoemaker, set out across a col (“a mountain-range of moderate…
Davis Editing 