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On White Guys Talking About Reading Women

By seanvansickel May 2, 2016Reading Journal

http://jezebel.com/damn-youre-not-reading-any-books-by-white-men-this-yea-1751094468 I’m a white guy, and prone to getting unfortunately navel-gazey and introspective. I heard about this piece from Jezebel on the 3% Podcast (books in translation, check it out)…

Djuna Barnes’ “Nightwood” and the virtues of reading good shit you don’t like

By seanvansickel February 29, 2016Reading Journal

Nightwood T.S. Eliot said of Djuna Barnes’ 1936 novel “Nightwood” that “it is so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it”. There’s a poetic…

Herta Müller’s “The Passport” -Kicking Off “50 in 16”

By seanvansickel January 8, 2016Reading Journal

Herta Müller’s novel “The Passport” is my first entry in my big reading project the year (reading fifty novel-length works by women in 2016). I had read her short story…

Reading Goals For 2016

By seanvansickel January 2, 2016Reading Journal2 Comments

2015 was a bad year for reading women. Out of the 130 books I read, only 12 of them were written by female authors. The reasons for this are numerous…