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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Joiner
Goodreads Author
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in Cincinnati, The United States
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Yasunari Kawabata, Natsume Soseki, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima,
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February 2012
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Kanazawa
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Lotusland
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The Heron Catchers
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Stray Cat City
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Japan Writers Panel, MinkaCon 2025
I've just uploaded a YouTube video of MinkaCon 2025 in Aichi prefecture. In the video, I read from The Heron Catchers, followed by readings by my fellow panelists Everett Kennedy Brown and Azby Brown.
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2247...
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2247...
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"Saul Bellow's the Adventures of Augie March is one of three things; it's either Saul Bellow's most verbose novel, a piece of fiction that almost stands as an historical document of Chicago during the Great Depression, or one of the best contemporary "
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Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work:
"Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth displays the two qualities most evident in his nonfiction: intelligence and eloquence. In this collection he interviews or reflects on writers he has been close to, and whose work h"
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"This was the first Roth I've ever read, as it was part of the syllabus in a college seminar titled "Fictions of Passing" dealing with stories about people who pass as members of another identity group. Famous examples with protagonists trying to flee"
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"In 2004, when I first read this book about the rise of fascism in the US, the American President was a certain George W. Bush, a guy that made us march in the streets of Germany because we thought he was so horrible. In hindsight, that was kinda cute"
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