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I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race, class struggle, wine, baseball, music…
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year.
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Steven Ray rated On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 4 stars
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
Steven Ray rated The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 5 stars
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas …
Steven Ray rated Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1): 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The waste land and other poems: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Night Sky with Exit Wounds: 4 stars
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess …
Steven Ray rated Year of the Monkey: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Όμηρος
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
