Steven Ray wants to read One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
This yearly collection of award-winning poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs is always a great read.
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I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.
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2026 Reading Goal
11% complete! Steven Ray has read 2 of 18 books.
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Steven Ray wants to read The African American Urban Experience by Joe William Trotter
Steven Ray wants to read The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, …
Steven Ray wants to read Pushcart Prize XLV by Bill Henderson
Steven Ray wants to read New music, new allies by Amy C. Beal (California studies in 20th-century music ;)
This copy of Amy Beal’s history of American experimental music in Germany was owned by Tom Verlaine. I purchased it from a Brooklyn book store. :-)
Steven Ray wants to read Selected poems by Federico García Lorca
This copy of Garcia Lorca’s poems was owned by Tom Verlaine. I purchased it from a Brooklyn book store. :-)
Steven Ray started reading I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn
Steven Ray started reading I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Steven Ray started reading Essential Essays, Volume 1 by Stuart Hall
Essential Essays, Volume 1 by Stuart Hall, David Morley
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural …
Steven Ray finished reading The White Album by Joan Didion
Another set of semi-autobiographical stories originally published in one magazine or another. I find Joan Didion’s writing to have a mysterious pull on me. Almost mesmerizing in its phrasing, its stories pulled from her life, about things both mundane and surreal. I found this set to be slightly less compelling than that of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, but I was grateful to read it nonetheless.
Steven Ray rated The White Album: 4 stars
Steven Ray wants to read Essential Essays, Volume 1 by Stuart Hall
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to …
One of the key scholars of the Intellectual Left in Britain, Stuart Hall wrote on culture, class, race, representation and politics.
Steven Ray wants to read Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō
Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Steven Ray wants to read A history of the world in 100 objects by Neil MacGregor
A history of the world in 100 objects by Neil MacGregor
Traces the stories of one hundred human innovations to explain their pivotal role in shaping civilization, from weapons and the …
Steven Ray started reading The White Album by Joan Didion
I adore her writing. Really looking forward to this one.