Single Reading June Pick
In June, the editorial department of the single reading ended working from home and returned to the office, but the epidemic prevention and control is still affecting our lives: we must remember the number of days when the nucleic acid negative is confirmed every day to ensure the legality of going out; the community where the editor-in-chief is located was suddenly blocked Control (obedience is a chronic disease | 10 days of closure and control); my colleagues are all sighing, and I haven’t been able to go home for a long time. The two women’s incidents here and on the other side also reminded that the world is abnormal.
Reading is one of the few times when we can bring a sense of stability and order. We are still writing, disseminating, and maintaining expectations for people and the world in a small-scale spiritual world. believe in the same.
So we decided that not only the annual literary awards, but also the people and works we pay attention to every month, so as to examine the current life. Below is June’s single-read Pick’s author, work, travel literature, and book design on escape and memory.
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June
Writers We Follow
Writer of the Month
Zhang Quan
In the undercurrent of the elapsed time, there are many moving stories and interesting knowledge, but they are almost buried by layers of sand. Zhang Quan is always good at salvaging them, keenly identifying important themes from massive materials, using solid materials to organize skills, clarifying the historical context, and using a well-trained awareness of problems to find their echoes today. The three books, “The Way of Craftsmanship”, “Interviews with Chinese Civilization” and “Masters in the Wilderness”, respectively focus on the spiritual connection between traditional craftsmen, contemporary thinkers and the history of Chinese civilization and the first generation of Chinese scholars who went to the wilderness to do fieldwork , with his excellent writing skills, he makes the original complex story clear and fascinating, and polishes the bronze mirror for today’s readers.
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June
Works we love to read
Books of the Month
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man in shadow
Natasha Warding’s writing is still very deep, and she can write such a depth of the almost silent father-daughter relationship. Although the tension and intensity are not as good as “She is from Mariupol”, reading it as the second part of the “Mariupol Trilogy” has added a lot of knowledge, not to mention that this is the life of two generations. When individuals are used as footnotes in big history, especially those who are degraded and unpopular, they can only be reduced to silent shadows, because “speaking itself is a danger.” Fortunately, one of the rebels Her daughter later mastered the ability to express herself, and with hindsight, she made a voice for her dead and separated relatives.
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Time Bear, Mirror Tiger and Invisible Kitten
“What a lovely person to be able to write such sentences and stories.” Reading this book full of childish and babbling words, which often makes one’s heart happy, can’t help but express this somewhat nauseous emotion. Fan Ye is well-known as a Spanish translator, and his name is placed together with “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, “Unknown University” and “Three Sad Tigers”.
He writes with a child’s perspective and tone, without science, without reason, without pretense, but it is clearly the creation of an adult: it is a sentence that has been tempered after being soaked in literature. Thoughts that come to mind only after life experiences. It is also worth mentioning that the illustrations in the book are all drawn by Gu Xiang, which complements Fan Ye’s writing.
This book really makes people want to turn a few pages before going to bed every day, not necessarily a good dream, but a high probability of having an interesting dream.
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The Texture of Poverty: Wang Bang’s British Observations
In the 12 years he lived in the UK, Wang Bang changed from a “London drifter” from a foreign land to a local “countryman”. She is first and foremost a participant who is serious about life and observant: she lives in low-rent housing, goes shopping in second-hand stores, grows vegetables in the backyard, works in the fields, and walks into country social clubs; she pays attention to food prices and housing issues; she visits nursing homes, Joining the food bank, caring about the lives of her neighbors, their experiences and situations, led her to look further afield, and inspired her to further understand the contemporary British family, pension, medical care, system, etc. through reading and interviews. A series of social issues, and thus reflect on the specific impact of globalization on a middle- and lower-income family.
And the British experience she offers has direct inspiration for us here and now. No matter how to solve the problem of increasing shortage of medical resources and increasing pressure on young people’s lives when the gap between the rich and the poor and the aging society are intensifying in the UK, or how to develop a “mutual aid” model during the epidemic in the UK to give full play to the bottom-up civil society Strength and mobilizing the enthusiasm of individuals to participate in mutual assistance are worthy of our attention and thinking, and learn from the experience of ordinary people in dealing with public problems.
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Beautiful world, where are you
“When the millions of people who had to live in poverty and misery were juxtaposed with the lives of the novel’s ‘protagonists’, the novel would appear either tasteless or a failed art.”
This is an excerpt from Sally Rooney’s new novel, A Beautiful World, Where Are You. The protagonist, Alice, a writer of the same age, background and experience as Sally Rooney, criticized European and American novels like this in an email exchange with her good friend Irene. Erin is a literary editor. As a result, the lives of the two “protagonists”, Alice and Erin, have been criticized by themselves, along with this new novel. See here, and you’ll find out a million times, that this is a novel that isn’t ashamed to discuss everything that’s going on right now. If this is the charm of Sally Rooney – writing about excess self-awareness, writing about metaphysical troubles, writing about the fragile relationship that relies on the Internet and technology – “Beautiful World, Where Are You” is to make this charm more simply A novel that plays out.
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Daily Miscellaneous
I have seen Moyin’s article on Yuriko Takeda in “Single Reading 28 Bright Moments: Special Feature of Female Directors”, and many identities around this woman have emerged one by one: cafe waitress, granddaughter of murder victim, famous The writer’s wife, the dictator…and finally the writer. That’s why I’m even more curious about her writing. “Daily Miscellaneous Notes” is Yuriko Takeda’s last work before her death. Although it is not as familiar to readers as “Fuji Diary”, it shows more daily power with brushstrokes that transcend the style. This power does not refer to excitement, but a kind of indifference and tenacity. In the words of the translator, Muyin, “it is to capture the power of the branches and leaves of life that are still breathing in the hands”.
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city of memory
Social news writers, non-fiction, autobiographical novels, these keywords have firmly grasped readers, plus, the author’s column has Yuan Ling’s name written on it. Yuan Ling is the winner of the 5th One-way Street Bookstore Literary Award for Young Writer of the Year. In the field of non-fiction writing, readers are already familiar with him. This time, he still maintains his keen perspective, jumping text style and rough sense of reality, and tries to “rescue” the lost world and the lost time with this book.
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June
Travel literature that gives us a breather
Travel Writing of the Month
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The soil is not rustic: the knowledge farmer’s life in the mountains
There was a popular saying for a while: “The urban routine is deep, I want to go back to the countryside.” Although the urban life is convenient and the prosperous landscape is charming, the non-stop competition, unfulfilled desires, and inexhaustible pressure make people daydream.” Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan” rural life. Longhorn Antelope and Mosquito Zizi, the authors of “The Earth Is Not Rustic”, put many people’s imaginations into practice, and the two moved to live in Lishan, Beijing.
But urban and rural are not a pair of antonyms, and the life of a farmer is equally difficult. For example, do young people who are only proficient in operating mobile phones know how to use work tools? This book does not describe life in Satoyama as a peach blossom garden. You can even think of it as a guidebook for mountain life. They record their work experience, animal and plant observations and recipes. In the process, they use their bodies to feel nature, Understand life and experience a life that resonates with it.
If you still hold a heart of escape, this book may dispel unrealistic fantasies, but it may also give you the courage to always use your hands to carve out the possibility of other lives and achieve happiness.
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Yulin Road
When writing “Longguan Road”, the author Hu Chengcheng adopted a fluid and mixed style: like writing travel notes, like writing prose, and like writing literary and historical reviews. In writing “Yulin Road” this time, he not only continued this style, but also included the photographic works he took during his travels, resisting people’s forgetting of this history in the visual dimension.
In the narrative of “Yulin Road”, both private and public historical memory coexist. The author writes about the places in northern Shaanxi where many historical events happened, and also about the villages where the grandparents lived, so the “customs and customs” became the stories of each specific person. Although the author is retracing the road of his hometown, as he said in the afterword outside the book, “Maybe, I mean maybe, maybe you will still see your grandparents and see their stories.” Maybe we can also regain our interest in the history of our hometown and see our own history in it.
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June
Book design that appeals to us
Book Design of the Month
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So Not Anger: The Revolutionary Power of Female Anger
The collision of colors and the split of glyphs make the cover of this book attractive enough, which intuitively reflects the emotion of “I’m not angry”. After the book cover is unfolded, it is a poster with a rather innovative design.
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King Zhou
The strong color contrast, the strong sense of contradiction between the sans-serif English font and the Chinese handwriting, present the dramatic tension of this work.
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Ouyang Xiu: Neo-Confucianism in the Eleventh Century
This is a study of China made under the Western academic system. It has been translated back into Chinese, and the design is also conveying the book’s journey between the East and the West: traditional Chinese elements such as calligraphy and literati painting are used, while Western A diagram of the way to arrange textual information.
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