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A Year in Reading: Carribean Fragoza

I don’t know about you, but around this time of year I’m feeling the weight of having survived a great many things along with a sense of urgency in expectation of what is yet to be come and remains to be done. My reading choices this year, more than ever, dig deeper into my interest in what writers are doing, thinking, and living beyond the page. I’m more aware than ever of changes of tectonic proportions taking place as I write this. While I have been interested in the musings of writers on their daily exercise habits or extensive rituals that help them beckon their muse, I’ve grown to care more about the busy, complicated, and passionate lives of writers that are sometimes torn away from the page by the callings

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