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Steven Ray

stevenray@sfba.club

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

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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Steven Ray's books

To Read (View all 279)

Richard Sandbrook: Civilizing Globalization (Hardcover, State University of New York Press)
Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of a death foretold (Paperback, 2003, Vintage International)
Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller: Critical Race Theory (Paperback, New Press)

Currently Reading

Goran Therborn: Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy (2020, Verso Books)
Jeffery R. Webber: The last day of oppression, and the first day of the same (2017, Haymarket Books)

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Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet (Paperback, 2010, Serpent's Tail)
Ibram X. Kendi: How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover, 2019, One World)
Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny (Paperback, 2017)

2025 Reading Goal

80% complete! Steven Ray has read 12 of 15 books.

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finished reading The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson: The Outsider (Paperback, 1987, Tarcher)

The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published …

Quite the study of the psyche of the Outsider in our society. The author delves into some of the major characters of modern literature, as well as the temperaments of various artists. I confess that I didn't always grasp what he was trying to communicate (and I hadn't read all of the works he referenced), but I learned a lot nonetheless.