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On Milan Kundera–Ignorance, The Odyssey, and Teju Cole

By on October 31, 2015 in Fiction

I did not read The Unbearable Lightness of Being but watched the movie instead. As all movies adapted from great books, I was left wondering what I had missed. Later, when I had a chance to read The Curtain, I underlined almost every sentence. I loved the plot summaries of all the books that Kundera […]

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Experiments in Reading: the thief in Teju Cole and Amos Tutuola’s books

By on March 30, 2015 in Fiction

I’m inclined to experiments in reading. I will sometimes read five books concurrently, and to avoid mixing the stories, I will select two books in poetry, two in fiction, and one nonfiction. The mind can handle an evolutionary biology text alongside Ezra Pound, Teju Cole, Charles Simic and Ali Smith. Surprisingly–and this is partly why […]

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