Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesBOOKS I READ: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1993).John Grady Cole heads down to Mexico with his buddy Lacey Rawlins, looking for work as vaqueros, finding forbidden love instead.Aug 29Aug 29
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesBOOKS I READ: The Promised Party by Jennifer Clement (2024).A memoir of the writer’s childhood in Mexico City and her subsequent move to NYC to attend college, both fertile ground for the arts.Aug 17Aug 17
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesBOOKS I READ: Knife by Salman Rushdie (2024).Rushdie recounts the horror of the knife attack that almost took his life and the subsequent recovery periodAug 6Aug 6
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesBOOKS I READ: Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather (1912).Bartley Alexander, a renown bridge engineer from Boston, travels to London, rekindling an old flame.Jul 30Jul 30
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesBOOKS I READ: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004).The novel is a long letter by Reverend John Ames to his young son.Jul 231Jul 231
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesTranscendence of WitnessingAn Immigrant’s Odyssey Reaches Its Last StopJun 20Jun 20
Mauricio MatizinHuman PartsRemembering Wilhelmenia Wiggins FernandezThe diva from “Diva” anchors my playlist of treasured songsApr 52Apr 52
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesThe Books I’m Reading in 2024My reading log with links to reviews (13)Feb 27Feb 27
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesAnd Down the Stretch They ComeOn this day, my father’s rebuttal of a reference-book detail was an early lesson in the value of a skeptical mindsetFeb 19Feb 19
Mauricio MatizinThe Ink Never DriesThe Books I Read in 2023A year-end summary from my reading log (28)Jan 31Jan 31
