Dansite Reading Journal

Dan Jewett's chronological reading record.

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Book, read May 6, 2026
Trout Fishing in America (1967)
by Richard Brautigan
American Literature Nature Writing Satire
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Book, In Progress
The Passion According to G.H. (1964)
by Clarice Lispector • translated by Idra Novey
Literary Fiction
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Book, read May 5, 2026
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
by Carson McCullers
American Literature Debut Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Article, read May 5, 2026
How Should a Pixel Be?

The New York Review of Books, May 14, 2026

by Dennis Lim
Film Review
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Article, read May 3, 2026
The Right Amount of Crazy: In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.

The New York Review of Books, May 14, 2026

by Fintan O'Toole
Essay
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Book, read May 3, 2026
A Good Man is Hard to Find: And Other Stories (1955)
by Flannery O'Connor
American Literature Stories
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Book, read April 26, 2026
Letter From Birmingham Jail (1963)
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Essay Opinion
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Book, read April 20, 2026
Spoon River Anthology (1915)
by Edward Lee Masters
American Literature Poetry
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Book, In Progress
Light in August (1932)
by William Faulkner
American Literature Classic Literature
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Book, read April 13, 2026
Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City 1964-1972 (2021)
by Carolyn Glenn Brewer
Biography Music
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Book, read April 8, 2026
In a Lonely Place (1947)
by Dorothy B. Hughes
Crime Fiction
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Collection, read April 5, 2026
Application for Release from the Dream (2015)
by Tony Hoagland
Poetry Top Pick
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Book, read February 7, 2026
North Woods (2023)
by Daniel Mason
Literary Fiction Nature Writing Pulitzer Prize Finalist Top Pick
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Book, read January 17, 2026
Five Decembers (2022)
by James Kestrel
Crime Fiction Top Pick
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Article, read January 10, 2026
All the Sad Unliterary Men

The New York Review, January 15, 2026

by Kevin Power
Book Review
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Article, read January 10, 2026
To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”

Mother Jones, December 1, 2024

by Kiera Butler
Essay Politics
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Book, read January 6, 2026
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (2022)
by Hu Anyan • translated by Jack Hargreaves
Memoir
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Article, read January 2, 2026
Fire Season: Returning to a Charred Neighborhood

The New Yorker, September 29, 2025

by Dana Goodyear
Essay
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Article, read January 2, 2026
On the Impersonal Essay: Thinking in Six Parts

The New Yorker, September 29, 2025

by Zadie Smith
Essay
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Book, read November 27, 2025
Ceremony (1977)
by Leslie Marmon Silko
American Literature Literary Fiction