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The Ink Never Dries

A collection of essays, short stories, and poems by Mauricio Matiz.

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Book cover for These Precious Days (2021) by Ann Patchett. The painting of her dog is by Sooki Raphael.

BOOKS I READ: These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (2021). A touching collection of essays about her fathers (yes, plural), old friends, and new friends. The title story, and the…

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Book cover for The Best American Short Stories 2023, editor Min Jin Lee

BOOKS I READ: The Best American Short Stories 2023 selected by Min Jin Lee (2023). Min Jin Lee’s outstanding introduction starts off this collection of twenty short stories…

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Book cover for Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement (2014) is an illustration of a girls face embedded in the petals of a flower.

BOOKS I READ: Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement (2014). Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in a mountainous town of mostly women. Many of the men have left for the U.S. for better…

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The Books I’m Reading in 2024

My current year reading log with links to reviews (5)

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Three covers from the Nature Library series: Early Man (a skull); The Mammals (a lion’s face); The Insects (a dragonfly on a plant).

And Down the Stretch They Come

On this day, my father’s rebuttal of a reference-book detail was an…

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Three book covers from this year’s list.

The Books I Read in 2023

A year-end summary from my reading log (28)

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A Reading in Jackson Heights

Facing an audience for the first time.

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A pair of baby footprints, one blue, one pink.

Fiction

A Secret Hardens

The babysitter’s secret behind the twins’ footprints.

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Woodlawn Beach, Lake Erie, 1968. Source: Matiz family archive, Super 8 film frame.

The Super 8 Years

On this day, and many other days, my father was the cameraman.

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Highlighted books from BOOKS I READ log. Book covers for Homeland Eligies, Fierce Attachments, and A Fan’s Notes.

The Books I Read in 2022

A compilation from the BOOKS I READ log

The Ink Never Dries

My collection of essays, short stories, and poems, some sorted into featured pages. A reading log highlight authors that influence my writing.

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