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    This space is where I gather thoughts that don’t quite belong to one genre or discipline. Here, I write about the writers who have challenged, inspired, or quietly accompanied me—across pages, across languages. The books I explore range from theater and playwriting to poetry, fiction, performance theory, and communication studies. Some are well-known voices in the field; others are under-read, quietly subversive, or personally significant. As someone who writes for the stage and works between cultures, I often find myself returning to books not just to study them, but to be provoked by them. I read with a dramatist’s ear, a translator’s instinct, and the unease of someone who knows that language is both a bridge and a battlefield. These writings reflect that sensibility—they are not formal reviews, but resonant reflections. Sometimes they take the shape of annotations. Sometimes they spiral into brief essays. But they always begin with the same impulse: to engage. You’ll find here a mixture of voices—from playwrights and poets to theorists of the unsayable. I write about what lingers, what unsettles, what teaches me something about presence, silence, conflict, and connection. This is not a library. It’s more like a conversation—ongoing, open-ended, and honest.

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