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And I've Returned to Films!
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Adam Moody

March 2021

A Dilettante's Struggle: On Barthes, Adolphe & Textermination
The theme of this month’s reading has been reading above my weight class. I went to mediocre schools my entire life, from growing up in small town…
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Recent Reads by Duras and Brian Dillon, A Home in Sontag's Journals & Reading Projects
I’ve been reading Susan Sontag’s journals, unintentionally starting with the second volume, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: 1964-1980, very…
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Adam Moody

February 2021

Brief Thoughts On Recent Reads & Escaping the Grim Reaper of Writing
Sorrentino, Tove Ditlevsen, Tolstoy & Ugrešić
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Notes on Sontag and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Against Interpretation & Other Essays by Susan Sontag (Picador) I feel inadequate to the task of writing about this book. I have not read enough or…
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Adam Moody

January 2021

The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer & Three Other Books By Exciting Women Writers
Elisa Gabbert, Muriel Spark and Liliana Colazi
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Adam Moody
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Little Relevancy, But More Review
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Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry Cycle & 1920 Diary
The Red Cavalry Stories and 1920 Diary by Isaac Babel (W.W. Norton, translated by Peter Constantine) Isaac Babel was known to constantly rewrite his…
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Adam Moody
Envy by Yuri Olesha & Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Envy by Yuri Olesha (NYRB Classics, translated by Marian Schwartz) This book follows one of my favorite literary traditions—A Book of Ravings. A satire…
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December 2020

Brief Thoughts: Zündel’s Exit, Marguerite Duras's The Lover and Maupassant Stories
This post is an example of what I will likely be primarily using this newsletter for. So without any preamble, here are some thoughts on my final reads…
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2020 in Books: A Selection of Great Books Read
As an individual who spends the vast majority of their free time reading, it is my duty to cap the end of the year by writing about some of the great…
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Adam Moody
As a Year of Reading Draws To An End, Writing Calls!
Scattered Thoughts & Haphazard Goals
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