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title: "Recent reading" | ||
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Mostly novels this time: | ||
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- 조남주, «82년생 김지영», a 2016 novel about (I have struggled to phrase this | ||
in a way that isn’t too dead-on) why it is so rough to be a woman in | ||
contemporary Korean society. | ||
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The movie version from 2019 is better known, perhaps thanks to the sanitized | ||
resolution in which the title character learns to | ||
channel her resentment into creative energy—and writes the novel that | ||
became the movie. In the novel version, however, the last chapter reveals | ||
the narrator to be 지영’s therapist, and as he weighs different | ||
diagnoses for her, he comes within inches of a feminist awakening before | ||
reversing course. Witholding spoilers, I suspect that much of the | ||
hand-wringing around this novel turns on its withering, cynical last sentence. | ||
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- 장강명, «한국이 싫어서», a novel about a woman’s decision to migrate from | ||
Korea to Australia, and for reasons that are no surprise if you’ve read the | ||
book above. This one has a happy ending. | ||
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- Mishele Maron, [“Anger Management”](https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/578/anger-management), | ||
(paywall), a memoir by a psychologist whose job was to “goad men with a | ||
history of violence into wanting to punch me” and create the opportunity for | ||
them to examine their feelings in group counseling. | ||
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- Greg Egan, *Permutation City.* | ||
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- Philip K. Dick, *The Man in the High Castle.* | ||
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I am looking for Korean bookstores that deliver within the US. So far | ||
[반디북US](https://www.bandibookus.com/) has proven reliable, but their | ||
rickety website gives me the feeling they are just reselling from somewhere | ||
else. Write if you know. |