Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
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by Anne Carson
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…Some of the books I've been pushing on people in the past few years, with varying success, include: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, The Great Gatsby, Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, (v.) by Anastacia-Renee, and Winter Mythologies and Abbots by Pierre Michon. They're all excellent books! But you're right, I am somewhat of a moral relativist. I think it's very hard…
on “The Life, Death–and Afterlife–Of Literary Fiction” ↗…Hayakawa How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler Gilgamesh Beowulf Snowcrash High Output Management, Andy Grove Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley Walden, Thoreau Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson Letters from a Stoic, Seneca Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein Tyranny of Words, Stuart Chase Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon Disrupted, Dan Lyons…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗…only read two of his novels, so not completely confident here. The rest write in their native languages and live in their birth countries. I believe when you mention Carson's LGBT text, you refer to Autobiography of Red, it was written in the late 90s, not this year. Edit: fixing typos, punctuation, and wording
on “Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026” ↗