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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T20:19:39.453Z",
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    "Mr. Bradbury's advice"
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  "textContent": "I stuck with Mr. Bradbury's advice and continued reading a poem, an essay, and a short story every night. I mostly stuck with the bilingual edition of _Selected Poems of Bertolt Brecht_ for the poetry, supplemented by Adrienne Rich. For essays, since I finished _Why Look at Animals_ , I moved on to another Berger collection, _Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible_. For stories, I started mixing in Ernest Hemingway's collected _Nick Adam's Stories_ and David Foster Wallace's _Brief Interviews with Hideous Men_.\n\nAnd I'm still working my way through Ursula K. Le Guin's _The Farthest Shore_.\n\n## Nov. 23–29\n\nSunday:\n\n  * Poem: Bertolt Brecht, “Das Lied von den Eisenbahntruppe von Fort Donald” (1916)\n  * Essay: John Berger, “Speech on Accepting the Booker Prize” (1972)\n  * Story: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, “The Story of a Head that Fell Off” (1917)\n\n\n\nMonday:\n\n  * Poem: Bertolt Brecht, “Ballad of the Adventurers” (1917)\n  * Essay: John Berger, “Past Seen from a Possible Future” (1970)\n  * Story: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, “Green Onions” (1919)\n\n\n\nTuesday:\n\n  * Poem: Bertolt Brecht, “In Memory of Marie A” (1920)\n  * Essay: John Berger, “Turner and the Barber’s Shop” (1972)\n  * Story: Ernest Hemingway, “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” (1924)\n\n\n\nWednesday:\n\n  * Poem: Bertolt Brecht, “Vom Schwimmen in Seen und Flüssen” (1919)\n  * Essay: John Berger, John Berger, “The Suit and the Photograph” (1979)\n  * Story: David Foster Wallace, “A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life” (1999)\n\n\n\nThursday:\n\n  * Poem: Bertolt Brecht, “Vom ertrunkenen Mädchen” (1919)\n  * Essay: John Berger, John Berger, “The Eyes of Claude Monet” (1980)\n  * Story: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, “Horse Legs” (1925)\n\n\n\nFriday:\n\n  * Poem: Bertolt Brecht, “Lied am schwarzen Samstag der elften Stunde der nach vor Osten” (1920)\n  * Essay: John Berger, “The Production of the World” (1983)\n  * Story: David Foster Wallace, “Death is Not the End” (1999)\n\n\n\nSaturday:\n\n  * Poem: Adrienne Rich, “Well in Ruined Courtyard” (1963)\n  * Essay: John Berger, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible” (2001)\n  * Story: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, “Daidōji Shinsuke: The Early Years” (1924)\n\n\n\n## Comics: Special Alex Toth Edition!\n\nAs for comics, I went on a big Alex Toth bender, reading most in chronological order from original publication date.\n\n  * 1952: F-86 Sabre Jet (7 pages. From _Frontline Combat_ #12, reprinted in 1995.)\n  * 1953: The Crushed Gardenia (8 pages. From _Who is Next?_ #5, reprinted in _Seduction of the Innocent_ #3, 1985.)\n  * 1959: Illustrations from a 1959 novelization of the TV show _Maverick_ starring James Garner. A previous owner made a note atop a page they must have been reading when they learned that, \"John Lennon was murdered Dec. 8th, 1980.\"\n  * 1965: Grave Undertaking (6 pages. From _Creepy_ #5. Reprinted in _Creepy_ 139 in 1982.)\n  * 1966: The Monument (6 pages. From _Eerie_ #3. Reprinted in _Creepy_ 139.)\n  * 1966: Rude Awakening (6 pages. From _Creepy_ #7. Reprinted in _Creepy_ 139)\n  * 1966: Survival (6 pages. From _Blazing Combat_ #3. Reprinted in _Creepy_ 139 (1982)\n  * 1975: Daddy and the Pie (8 pages. From _Eerie_ #64. Reprinted in _Creepy_ 139.)\n  * 1975: Phantom of Pleasure Island (8 pages. From _Creepy_ #75. Reprinted in _Creepy_ 139.)\n  * 1976: Unreal (6 pages, _Creepy_ #78.)\n  * 1976: Kui (6 pages, _Creepy_ #79.)\n  * 1977: The Vanguard (10 pages, _Hot Stuf'_ #4.)\n  * 1980: The Killing (12 pages, _Creepy_ #122, inks over Leo Duranona.)\n  * 1981: Circus of the Bizarre (5 pages, _Creepy_ #125, inks over Carmine Infantino.)\n  * 1982: Taps (5 pages, _Bop_ #1.)\n  * 1983: Oolala (12 pages, _Dragon's Teeth_ #1.)\n  * 1983: The Fox (8 pages, _The Black Hood_ #2.)\n  * 1983: The Most XXXXX Man in the World (12 pages, _The Black Hood_ #3.)\n\n\n\nI also intended to read all of Bravo for Adventure, which I have in their original printings, but only got to the intro (4 pages) and the \"Dream Story\" (17 pages) from _Voyages_ #1 (1983), and haven't had a chance to read the previously published (but next in sequence per the collected edition) two stories from _The Rook_ #1 (24 pages) and #2 (25 pages) in 1979. Soon!",
  "title": "Reading Log, Week 2",
  "updatedAt": "2025-11-30T00:00:00.000Z"
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