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The Ink Never Dries

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.

2 min readApr 23, 2024

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

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Human Parts

Remembering Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

The diva from “Diva” anchors my playlist of treasured songs

5 min readApr 5, 2024

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“Diva Original Soundtrack” LP cover, showing front and back. Front features movie stills; back include the track listing and more stills from the movie, including one of Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez in her white gown from the theater scene.

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The Ink Never Dries

BOOKS I READ: Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement (2014).

Ladydi’s and her friends live in a town of mostly women, in a society corrupted by the drug trade.

2 min readFeb 28, 2024

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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.

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The Ink Never Dries

The Books I’m Reading in 2024

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

1 min readFeb 27, 2024

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The Books I’m Reading in 2024

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The Ink Never Dries

And Down the Stretch They Come

On this day, my father’s rebuttal of a reference-book detail was an early lesson in the value of a skeptical mindset

5 min readFeb 19, 2024

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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).

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The Books I Read in 2023

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

3 min readJan 3, 2024

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Three book covers from this year’s list.

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Crow’s Feet

The Great Christmas-Tree Hunt

The downside of the yearly ritual when living in the city.

6 min readDec 16, 2023

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Two kids on a tree farm wearing winter wear; one holds a saw ready to take down a Christmas tree.

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The Memoirist

Childhood Heroes — One Famous, One Not — Died on the Same Day

The confluence of the lives of Uncle Jorge and soccer great, Bobby Charlton.

5 min readNov 3, 2023

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Black and white photo showing a bungalow under construction in the background; in the foreground, a child and adult playfully working the grounds with a shovel and pitchfork. Child is clearly having fun.

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The Ink Never Dries

A Reading in Jackson Heights

Facing an audience for the first time.

4 min readJul 19, 2023

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A Reading in Jackson Heights

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Crow’s Feet

They Only Come Out At Noon

A peculiar army is on the march on weekdays

5 min readJun 27, 2023

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Elderly man walking the streets of Manhattan.

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Mauricio Matiz

Mauricio Matiz

I’m a NYC-based writer of personal stories, short stories, and poems that are often influenced by my birthplace, Santa Fe de Bogotá.

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