Dansite Reading Journal

Dan Jewett's chronological reading record.

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Book, read January 17, 2026
Five Decembers (2022)
by James Kestrel
Crime Fiction Top Pick
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Book, In Progress
North Woods (2023)
by Daniel Mason
Literary Fiction Pulitzer Prize Finalist
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Article, read January 10, 2026
All the Sad Unliterary Men

The New York Review, January 15, 2026

by Kevin Power
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
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Book, In Progress
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (2016)
by William T. Vollmann
American Literature Literary Fiction
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Article, read November 17, 2025
How the Web Was Lost

The New York Review, December 4, 2025

by James Gleick
Journalism Technology
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Book, In Progress
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (1940)
by Mortimer J. Adler , Charles Van Doren
Non-Fiction
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Ebook, read November 7, 2025
No Longer Human (1958)
by Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
Literary Fiction Translation
Note November 6, 2025

Very excited to have received this beautiful edition of The Complete Works of Michel De Montaigne today.
This will be my first foray into his work. I'm hoping to learn a lot about writing essays as I understand he is said to have invented the format and that his are some of the finest.

The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne

Essay
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Article, read November 5, 2025
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane

The New York Review, November 20, 2025

by Adam Shatz
Book Review
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Book, In Progress
The Melancholy of Resistance (2002)
by László Krasznahorkai • translated by George Szirtes
Literary Fiction
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Article, read October 18, 2025
The Big Cheese

The New York Review, October 23, 2025

by Andrew Katzenstein
Book Review
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Article, read October 18, 2025
Algorithm Nation

The New York Review, October 23, 2025

by Jacob Weisberg
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Play, In Progress
King Lear (1606)
by William Shakespeare
Classic Literature Stageplay
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Article, read October 1, 2025
Charlotte Under Pressure

The New York Review, October 9, 2025

by Frances Wilson
Memoir Review
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Book, read September 26, 2025
Tinkers (2009)
by Paul Harding
Literary Fiction Pulitzer Prize