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I had the good fortune to travel to the UK this month, researching the novel I am currently working on. One of the things I love about bookstores in the UK is the rich array of translations typically unavailable in US Bookstores. In fact, I read five of them this month, translated from French, Hebrew,
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What happens when you read the foremost [white] expert on a person’s work, before reading the work itself? No person of my complexion can visit this country without being struck with the marked difference between the English and the Americans. American abolitionist, historian, and author William Wells Brown, upon arrival in Liverpool, July 1849. For
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November was a non-fiction heavy reading month, as 9 of 13 books I read fell into the nonfiction category, while two more (Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), marvelously read by the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal; and Percival Everett’s The Book of Training (2019)) were based heavily in fact. It was my second reading of The
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I started out the month of September in Florence, Italy, where I continued to prioritize reading some amazing works in translation. Back in the U.S., I finished up the longest book I’ve read this year (maybe ever?), David Blight’s Pulitzer Prize winning, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. At a whopping 912 pages, the book is
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