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Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alex Kudera
Goodreads Author
Born
Philadelphia, The United States
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Ha Jin, Bharati Mukherjee, Don DeLillo, Frederick Exley, Thomas Pyncho
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Member Since
October 2010
To Float in the Space Between
"My coming-of-age story begins unheroically with me on a college bunk reading [Etheridge Knight's] 'The Idea of Ancestry' in a literature textbook.' It may be that poets coming of age staring across space as the speaker does in that poem. I read the poet's biography: a black man from Mississippi, a prisoner who became a poet. I didn't know anything then about 'constructed speakers' in poems; I bel
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Fight for Your Long Day
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2010
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Auggie's Revenge
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Frade Killed Ellen
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2015
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The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity
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2011
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3 editions
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Turquoise Truck
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2015
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Alex’s Recent Updates
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July 11, 2026: I'm on page 73. If you like Buk's Ham on Rye or Richard Wright's Black Boy, you'll likely get into this. I can already see why some readers prefer it to Hating Olivia or Lounge Lizard. July 13, 2026: I'm on page 79. July 14, 2026: I'm on ...more |
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I'm on page 37. July 11: I'm on page 117. There are certainly some great poems on a wide range of topics in here. https://kudera.blogspot.com/2026/07/m... https://kudera.blogspot.com/2026/07/c... ...more |
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July 11, 2026: I'm on page 73. If you like Buk's Ham on Rye or Richard Wright's Black Boy, you'll likely get into this. I can already see why some readers prefer it to Hating Olivia or Lounge Lizard. July 13, 2026: I'm on page 79. July 14, 2026: I'm on ...more |
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"Amazing... probably SaFranko's best work.
Reminiscent of Bukowski's Ham on Rye, it tells the story of SaFranko's alter ego Max Zajack's adolescent years, as he tries to navigate through a perverse maze of abusive parents, poverty and sleaze, bullying " Read more of this review » |
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I'm on page 37. July 11: I'm on page 117. There are certainly some great poems on a wide range of topics in here. https://kudera.blogspot.com/2026/07/m... https://kudera.blogspot.com/2026/07/c... ...more |
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W.D. Clarke's status update
W.D. Clarke
is on page 21 of 416 of Meiselman: This already feels like it's going to be one heckuva lot of fun.
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“Save for the fit of bizarre laughter at the end, the man seems so calm, sensible, rational. Duffy wishes he met more like him. A bit paranoid about this terrorism business, but frankly, he might be right. You never know who is around the bend to blow you up, destroy your symbols, set your embassy on fire, shit on your toilet seat, or send anthrax swimming into the subway air and into everyone's lungs.”
― Fight for Your Long Day
― Fight for Your Long Day
“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared office, I'd tell new hires I was ABD, so they wouldn't feel their own situation was so bleak. If they saw a ten-year veteran adjunct with a PhD, they might lose hope of securing a permanent job. It was the least I could do, as a good American, to remind the young we were an innocent and optimistic country where everyone was entitled to a fulfilling career. To make sure they understood that PhD stood not for "piled higher and deeper" or "Pop has dough," but in fact the degree meant "professional happiness desired," and at the altruistic colleges of democratic America only the angry or sad ones need not apply.”
― Auggie's Revenge
― Auggie's Revenge
“And so his royal Duffleleupagus is seized with the megalomaniacal conceit that he is the contemporary Jesus, the man wandering through the lives of these forlorn people, beaten and broken down by the unbearable thirst of relative deprivation--unless it was all of capitalism, or terrorism, or loneliness, or time. Of course, to compare oneself to Jesus is at least ridiculous, and yet not uninspired extreme narcissism, and although he cannot remember reading it symptomatic of a particularly overt form of latent homosexuality, he could not say for sure he had not read that either. On a cereal box top or as fortune cookie filler? Svevo or Zizek? Soft-core porn spam or in freshman composition?”
― Fight for Your Long Day
― Fight for Your Long Day
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“Heidegger’s parlamblings on ‘Nothing’ and ‘Not’ and ‘the Nothing that Nothings’ were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy.”
― Mickelsson's Ghosts
― Mickelsson's Ghosts
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