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I like "reading projects". I like big books. I like hard books. I like books that experiment with form and structure. I like books that challenge my world view and self view. I like to read books that I don't like. I like to read books with references that take me down rabbit holes of peripheral information (e.g. history, events, people, places, music, film, art, etc), and tell the story of the interconnection of all things.

A word from Jeff Tweedy, Learning to Love the Music [Books] You Hate

currently reading:

  • Água Viva by Clarice Lispector 🐛
  • Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger

active reading project: a biography for each president of the USA

completed reading projects:

favorite writers: William T. Vollmann, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, Philip Roth, Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Richard Powers, E.L. Doctorow, James Michener, Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Franz Kafka