Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Under the Rainbow
Celia Laskey
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory
Heather Love
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
Universe X, Vol. 1 (Earth X 2)
Jim Krueger
Unlikely Stories, Mostly
Alasdair Gray
Gray was a modern Scottish author who I somehow hadn’t heard of. I appreciated his very short stories in this collection even more than the longer ones, in particular for their combination of whimsy and unstable allegory. His writing draws on folks like Swift or even Aesop, but at the... more >>
Made me think about:
- The Ant King and Other Stories
Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
Simcha Weinstein