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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 Go Tell It on the Mountain: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Slouching Towards Bethlehem: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Cruel futures: 3 stars
Steven Ray rated Notes on the Assemblage: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Thresholes: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19): 4 stars

Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19) by Frank O'Hara
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger …
Steven Ray rated Praise: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Pushcart Prize XLIII: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Woolgathering: 5 stars

Woolgathering by Patti Smith
Patti Smith tells real and imagined stories from her childhood.
Steven Ray rated Shallcross: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment: 4 stars

Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From wikipedia:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a …