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Review of M Train by Patti Smith
Coffee-addict Patti Smith returns with another engrossing memoir-thing. She writes well about writing. I find my reading tastes lining up with hers. She conveys her burgeoning obsession with visiting writers’ graves in far-flung places, touching down in Japan and hunting down the resting place of Akutagawa, Dazai, Ozu and others.…
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Review of The White Book by Han Kang
Han Kang describes white things well. But it would’ve been more intriguing if the pages were black and the text was white. You can achieve this by getting an ebook and turning your kindle to Dark Mode.I would not call these interconnected stories, but rather, observations orbiting a theme. An…
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Review of Black Boy by Richard Wright
A harrowing memoir of a sensitive artist. Having read most of Wright’s books by now, I wasn’t expecting to be blown over by this as I was.Memoirs don’t often strike home for me, but this may be my favorite of the handful I’ve read.A rounded picture of the author is…
L. S. Popovich 