A tour through the Social Novel, Victorian(-ish) literature, and Weimar Autumn.
Designer, reader & writer.
Hi, I’m Daniel, a web designer in Los Angeles. When I’m not obsessing over typography or divs, I’m usually reading a book somebody would have banned somewhere.
Current Interests
Thinking about
The Shakespeare Authorship Question
Listening to
The Purple Bird , by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Tinkering with
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blog.
Recent Posts
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My review of The Historical Figure of Jesus by E.P. Sanders.
My review of The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays by Isaac Deutscher.
To ring in the new year, I'm excited to share a new version of this site with a fresh design, built with Deno Lume.
This year I devoted almost as much time to building a custom reading tracker app as I did to reading, but I’m still pleased with the quantity and quality of what I read.
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Recent Reads
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Babylon Berlin
Volker Kutscher
Completed on 2/25/2025
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Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
Updated on 2/4/2025
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Completed on 1/23/2025
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Essays
Thomas Mann
Started on 1/6/2025
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A Short History of the Weimar Republic
Colin Storer
Started on 12/30/2024
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Years of Theory
Fredric Jameson
Started on 12/28/2024
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Weimar Culture
Peter Gay
Completed on 12/11/2024
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The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
Completed on 11/14/2024