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2009 Reading #30: The Translator

  • Apr. 16th, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Angry
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
21. Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land by Sue Murphy Mote.
22. Meet Me In the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich.
23. Children of Rondo: Transcriptions of Rondo Oral History Interviews edited by Kimberly K. Zielinski.
24. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry.
25. The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm MacPherson.
26. Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community, gathered and edited by Kate Cavett (Hand in Hand Productions).
27. Letters From Attica by Sam Melville.
28. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
29. The Hmong Refugee Experience in the United States: Crossing the River by Ines Miyares.

30. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari. I knew this was going to be a tough book emotionally, in much the same way that We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families was; I wasn't wrong. When I read a book like this I believe in good and evil, at least for a while, and I came out of this one (and my other recent readings) thinking that if there's a higher purpose for free nations, it's to prevent genocides and take in refugees. Idealistic, maybe, but go back far enough in any person's family and you'll find someone who had to flee their home because someone was trying to kill them. We shouldn't forget that. We shouldn't be so covetous of our securities as to begrudge others just a little peace of mind.

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Novellas:

"The Sun Inside," part of the Electrum Novella Series from Rabit Transit Press



Short Stories:

"Escape to Bird Island" at The King's English, Winter 2008-9 Issue

"Bear In Contradicting Landscape" in Polyphony 7, Coming Soon

"MonstroCities" in Tumbarumba: A Frolic of Intrusions

"Mike's Place" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #22

"Proof of Zero" in Spicy Slipstream Stories, Out Now!!

"The Somnambulist" in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Out Now!!

"Oma Dortchen and the Pillar of Story" in Farrago's Wainscot, Summer 2007

"The Ichthyomancer Writes His Friend with an Account of the Yeti's Birthday Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Number 13, Fall 2003 (Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collecion); Reprinted in The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Criticism:

""Stardust" at Strange Horizons

Essay:

"On Making Noise: Confessions of a Quiet Kid" in Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer

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