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June 25, 2023

Mason & Dixon

By Thomas Pynchon

I think this is likely the best of Thomas Pynchon, one of the great novels of my lifetime, although I enjoyed his Bleeding Edge more. I don’t know that I’ve read a better book that was written since I’ve been...

May 20, 2023

If on the winters night a traveler

By Italo Calvino

I was wondering a lot about greatness while reading this. I don’t think Italo Calvino is one of the greats, but I do love what he does. There is something a bit Borgesian about this, maybe Kafkaesque or maybe a...

May 20, 2023

Ulysses

By James Joyce

I mean I thought this was pretty great actually. Tedious, sure, full of itself, sure, riddled with references and languages I either got, or as may happen, did not. I’m fine with a bit of navel-gazing, I can appreciate it,...