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What I’m reading: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America

12.10.2020 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

HBO Special poster of angel hovering over Prior Walter in his bed

One of the advantages of having a bad memory: when I re-read a book, it often feels like I’m reading it for the first time.

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Follow-up:
Matthew Walker’s Why we sleep

07.03.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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What I’m reading:
Matt Walker’s Why We Sleep

06.04.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If Amanda Fucking Palmer has been “having a passionate affair” with a book—if “the information [in that book] is literally, physically, technically changing [her] life on a day-to-day basis”—well, I figured it might be worth a read.

And so far, it has been.

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What I’m reading (audio):
Lee Child’s Past Tense

11.12.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Steve Martin in The Jerk, with the new phone book

The new Jack Reacher is here! The new Jack Reacher is here!

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What I’m reading: Fantasy, sci-fi, Buddhism, politics, and pedagogy

10.15.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Black and white of Mariko from cover of Bein's Daughter of the Blade

I don’t usually like reading more than a couple books at the same time, but I currently find myself in the middle of four or (depending on how you count) six different books.

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Arrogance, fear, and the fixed mindset

10.08.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

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I started this blog to encourage myself to write. So far: not a lot of progress on that front.

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What I’m reading:
Melissa Febos’s Whip Smart

09.03.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Whip on the cover of Whip Smart

“Becoming a dominatrix had not been my plan when I moved to New York…”

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What I’m reading: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga—the print version

08.20.2018 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Picture from front cover of Saga

Maybe I’m just a crotchety old fart, but when it comes to comics, I prefer paper to digital.

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What I’m reading (and teaching): McIntyre’s Post-Truth

07.30.2018 by Greg Kemble // 1 Comment

Fingers crossed

I’m more nervous than usual about the upcoming semester.

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What I’m reading: Amber Benson’s Death’s Daughter

07.16.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I haven’t finished reading Montaigne’s Essays yet, but it’s summer, and sometimes a guy just needs a break from 16th-century France.

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