Category: book

• Literary Burdens

  Jan 23

  Over the past week I could feel myself slowing down, hesitating to pick back up Alvin Lu’s Daydreamers. Not because of disinterest but because I didn’t want it to end.… more ›

• Books Read in 2025

  Dec 31

  Just in case the widget above doesn’t properly load, here’s a link to my list on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/books-read-in-2025-frank-garrett. In addition to the books listed above, I also read the following: more ›

• Epic Year, Part I

  Jul 2

  At some point near the beginning of 2025 I decided that I’d try to get through as many epics as I could, though I didn’t spend much time defining what… more ›

• Of Texts and Tears: Or why I cried while working in the library last year

  Apr 3

  In August I had a short-term research fellowship from the New York Public Library. I spent nine days in New York City working in their Slavic and East European Collections,… more ›

• Where My Mind Has Been

  Jan 1

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• Books Read in 2023

  Jan 1

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• Books Read

  Jan 3

  In 2022 I read 17 books. As usual I didn’t read much fiction at all. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, though, turned out to be one of my favorite novels of… more ›

• Reading Heidegger

  Jun 8

  You won’t have read Heidegger until you’ve (also) read Being and Time. There are two routes toward reading B/T: 1) just read the damn thing, or 2) ease into reading… more ›

• Books Read in 2021

  Jan 1

  Here are the books I read in 2021. A total of 20. Of course I read more than that, but it’s impossible to find some texts on IndieBound or even… more ›

• Without Night

  Oct 12

    Asleep, I recited or imagined myself reciting lines (to be exact: though I was saying nothing, I was nonetheless in the same emotional state as someone reciting his lines);… more ›