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Letters to a Writer of Color
Taymour Soomro (Editor) Deepa Anappara (Editor)
A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work "Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once."--Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens Filled with empathy and wisdom, instruction and inspiration, this book encourages us to reevaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped our assumptions about how fiction should be written, and also challenges us to apply its lessons to both what we read and how we read. Featuring: - Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are
- Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist
- Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn't a license we carry in our wallets
- Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny
- Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma
- Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves
- Myriam Gurba on the empowering circle of Latina writers she works within
- Kiese Laymon on hearing that no one wants to read the story that you want to write
- Mohammed Hanif on the censorship he experienced at the hands of political authorities
- Deepa Anappara on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of art
- Plus essays from Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo, Jamil Jan Kochai, Vida Cruz-Borja, Femi Kayode, Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Leila Aboulela, and Sharlene Teo The start of a more inclusive conversation about storytelling, Letters to a Writer of Color will be a touchstone for aspiring and working writers and for curious readers everywhere.
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Do you have any personal favorite queer books set in not-primarily-anglophone countries?
I do! Here are my personal favourites:
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Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (review), set in Lagos
Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam Gurba (review), set partly in Mexico and partly in the U.S.
Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy (review), set in India
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (review), set in several countries, including the Caribbean
Everfair by Nisi Shawl (review), set in an alternate Belgian Congo
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (review), set in a world inspired by North Africa
Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa (review), takes place in several countries, including the Phillipines
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, nonfiction in Germany
Manga, set in Japan:
I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Naoko Kodama (review)
How Do We Relationship? series by Tamifull (review)
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (memoir)
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Nadra Nittle and Candice Norwood at The 19th:
The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman led to one of the country’s most watched legal cases: The football superstar O.J. Simpson stood accused of killing his ex-wife and Goldman in a trial that sparked widespread debate about the power of celebrity, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and the significance of his race.
Following news of O.J. Simpson’s death on Wednesday from cancer complications, experts revisited how the murders and subsequent trial reshaped discussions of domestic violence — and the ways racial dynamics complicated them.
Some said the country saw a major shift on a subject that had historically been framed as a private matter.
“When those murders happened, it really forced folks to take a look at domestic violence, what it really means to families, how dangerous it is,” said Charmine Davis, director of family wellness at the Jenesse Center, a domestic violence prevention and intervention nonprofit in Los Angeles. “It changed the way bills are passed and how politicians, police and the whole system looked at domestic violence.”
Others said the case primarily amplified a harmful reality that continues today in entertainment and beyond.
“I don’t think that any inroads have been made in terms of the criminal legal system, because I don’t think it’s possible,” said Myriam Gurba, author of the book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions,” which includes essays about gendered violence. “I know that the criminal legal system does not exist to manufacture justice for battered women. I believe that the purpose of a system is what it does.”
The legacy of this case — however inconsistent it may be — advanced national conversations that were rarely visible at such widespread levels.
Just months after the June 12, 1994, murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The law stands out as the first comprehensive federal legislation designed to stop battery, sexual assault and other forms of violence targeting women. For years, advocates had unsuccessfully pushed to get the law enacted. The awareness Brown Simpson’s murder raised about intimate partner violence helped to get VAWA much-needed backing from lawmakers, supporters of the legislation said.
More broadly, advocates reported at the time that the number of donations to battered women’s shelters and other women’s organizations rose nationwide. The number of calls to shelters also increased, indicating that more women were comfortable coming forward about their abuse.
After her murder, the public learned the extent of the abuse Brown Simpson endured. She stored items in a safe deposit box at a bank: It included three photos of herself with a bruised, swollen face, apology letters from Simpson admitting the abuse, a journal that tracked Simpson’s stalking, and newspaper clips from a night in 1989 when she was hospitalized and the police were called. It appeared to be a trail of evidence laid out in case she was killed. Prosecutors discovered the box six months after Brown Simpson’s murder.
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On October 3, 1995, a Los Angeles jury found him not guilty of murder — a conclusion that outraged Brown Simpson’s supporters due to the evidence pointing at her ex-husband. Fans of Simpson celebrated the verdict. Although he hadn’t played competitive football since 1979 after career highs, including the 1973 Most Valuable Player award as a Buffalo Bill and a 1968 Heisman Trophy as a University of Southern California Trojan, the running back had channeled his fame as an athlete into roles as an actor and sports commentator. This made him relevant to a younger generation.
“O.J. Simpson was a character,” said Earl Smith, professor of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware. “He was the first celebrity athlete. Nobody commanded that much attention in terms of getting paid to sell products. Everybody loved him. He had that kind of personality.”
For critics of Simpson and many survivors of gender-based violence, Simpson’s acquittal sent a painful message. Advocates and attorneys have previously said it was clear that some jurors did not understand the connection between domestic violence and Brown Simpson’s murder. Gurba said the outcome of the case and the discussion of the abuse was “instructive” for her as a teenage girl: These taught her that she would not be believed and could also be killed.
Underlying the virality of the case were the inescapable racial dynamics that shape the U.S. court system and the criminalization of Black men. Simpson being a Black man and Brown Simpson being a White woman evokes associations between Black men and danger to women that have repeated throughout the country’s history.
Three years before Simpson’s acquittal, a Los Angeles-area jury found a group of White officers not guilty of assaulting Rodney King, a Black motorist they had been videotaped beating during a police stop. In 1991, a Los Angeles judge gave a Korean-American shopkeeper probation instead of prison time for fatally shooting Black teenager Latasha Harlins in her store. Both of these events intensified the racial tensions that ignited in the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion.
The O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials forced Americans to talk about the specter of domestic violence that led to the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAVA).
#O.J. Simpson Trial#O.J. Simpson#Nicole Brown Simpson#Ron Goldman#Domestic Violence#Domestic Abuse#VAWA#Violence Against Women Act#Violence Against Women
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Reading List
to be updated constantly
Articles:
"Why Women Online Can’t Stop Reading Fairy Porn" by C.T. Jones for Rolling Stone
"They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars." by Brett Murphy for ProPublica
"‘I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads!’" by Emily Gould for The Cut
"Woman in Retrograde" by Isabel Cristo for The Cut
"The unwanted Spanish soccer kiss is textbook male chauvinism. Don’t excuse it" by Moira Donegan for the Guardian
"I Started the Media Men List" by Moira Donegan for The Cut
"What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers" by Jordana Rosenfeld for The Nation
"The Key Detail Missing From the Narrative About O.J. and Race" by Joel Anderson for Slate
"The Coiled Ferocity of Zendaya" by Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture
"OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had" by Moira Donegan for The Guardian
"Norm Macdonald Was the Hater O.J. Simpson Could Never Outrun" by Miles Klee for Rolling Stone
"Trans Stylists and Makeup Artists Are Reshaping Red Carpet Looks. Will They Get the Credit They’re Due?" by James Factora
"The ‘perfect Aryan’ child used in Nazi propaganda was actually Jewish" by Terrence McCoy for The Washington Post
"There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity" by Maris Kreizman for Literary Hub
"An O.J. Juror on What The People v. O.J. Simpson Got Right and Wrong" by Ashley Reese for Vulture
"Super Cute Please Like" by Nicole Lipman for N + 1 Magazine
Essays:
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxanne Gay
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
"On Chappell Roan and Gen Z Pop" by Miranda Reinert
"In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson" by Andrea Dworkin
"My Gender Is Dyke" by Alexandria Juarez for Autostraddle
"Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation" by Hamilton Nolan
Nonfiction:
Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt
What it Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees
Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Fiction:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg
Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
Blackouts by Justin Torres
We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
The Faithless by C.L. Clark
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Institute by Stephen King
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi
Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
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top 5 nonfiction books?
another hard one! but here are five of the top """"non-ac(ish?????)"""" ones, though obviously, the line doesn't exist:
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Exile and Pride by Eli Clare
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
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whats on your tbr read, zo?
it is... so long... um top ten starting with shit that's sitting on my desk untouched and going into my goodreads a bit...
babel - rf kuang
nona the ninth -- tamsyn muir (sorry andie)
the world we make -- nk jemisin
riot baby -- tochi onyebuchi
the gilded ones -- namina forna
mean -- myriam gurba
the dangers of smoking in bed -- mariana enriquez
in the dream house -- carmen maria machado
lovely war -- julie berry
inferno -- catherine cho
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16, 17, and 20 for the book asks!! <3
hiiii erin ty!! 🤗💕
16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?
ooooh this is tough…..i’m gonna have to say the centre by ayesha manazir siddiqi 😔 i had heard a lot of amazing things from people who read early copies and i did enjoy it, but the ending was a bit disappointing and i don’t think it all came together in the way i was hoping 🤔 i would still recommend it but maybe with more tempered expectations going in lol
17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?
yeah a few actually!! i’ll mention my murder by katie williams for one. i picked up the audiobook because i wanted to listen to something fast paced with a mystery vibe but didn’t really expect much, and i actually really liked it! some beautiful writing with a very clever premise and surprising/satisfying twist 👌
and then also creep: accusations and confessions by myriam gurba, which i picked up when i heard that one of the essays featured some scathing criticism about american dirt (and i am nothing if not an american dirt hater 🤭🙃), but i ended up being completely blown away by gurba’s writing and ideas. the entire collection is brilliant, easy 5⭐️ (*heavy subject matter tho so def check the CWs 🫶)
20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?
i mentioned two here that met/exceeded my expectations, but i’ll also add rouge by mona awad as one of my most anticipated! i’ve seen mixed reviews from other awad stans but i had a blast with it so i’d say it did meet my expectations, tho maybe not as much as those other two.
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WHAT I READ IN 2023
all the books i read this year, not counting DNFs or books that i'm still working through (the Wiliad and Genji are on brief hiatus while i'm traveling over the holidays). an asterik marks a reread, but this was largely a year of new reads for me. shorter than previous years but with several long and/or dense texts. i also went into this year with the goal of intentional reading (what purpose does this serve?) and i feel like i fulfilled that. i welcome any and all asks about this list! i'm going to reblog an end of year book ask lists so if you want to reference any books in particular feel free!
fiction
IT - Stephen King
Embassytown - China Mieville
Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo
Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Matrix - Lauren Groff
The World We Make - N.K. Jemisin
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
The Late Americans - Brandon Taylor
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Sula - Toni Morrison
The Terror - Dan Simmons
Fledgling - Octavia Butler
Lone Women - Victor Lavalle
Holly - Stephen King
Out There Screaming - ed. Jordan Peele
Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez (trans. Macdowell)
Babel - R.F. Kuang
Family Meal - Bryan Washington
comix/graphic novels
Far Sector - N.K. Jemisin
Earthdivers - Stephen Graham Jones
Nightmare Country: The Glass House - James Tynion IV
She Bites - Hedwig Hale and Alberto Hdez
Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1-3 - James Tynion IV
poetry
Bless the Daughter Raised By the Voice in Her Head - Warsan Shire
Promesas de Oro - José Olivarez
nonfiction
Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence - Elsa Dorlin
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind - La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte
Ordinary Notes - Christina Sharpe
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings - Amanda Podamy
Unpayable Debt - Denise Ferreira de Silva
Creep - Myriam Gurba
All Incomplete - Fred Moten & Stefano Harvey
The Undercommons - Fred Moten & Stefano Harvey*
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun - Jackie Wang
Mestizo: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture - Rafael Perez-Torres
Black Trans Feminism - Marquis Bey
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yayy i love talking 😁😁 tagged by @keithrichards1969 👩❤️💋👩
last song i listened to: how i get myself killed by indigo de souza
currently reading: three different books 🤓🤓 mean by myriam gurba for class a little life by hanya yanagihara for funsies and the lonely city by olivia laing bc my bestie got it for me for my birthday and well . i like to read it when i’m lonely and in the city
currently watching: i’m casually rewatching htgawm bc i’ve missed my fav cunts connor and annalise <3 also rewatching hannibal on the side with my bestie
currently obsessed with: NOTHING and it’s really bad for me… i need to get a new obsession NOW or something is gonna go horribly wrong -_-
tagging @jovalencia and @minotaurust if u want to mwah
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Do you have some recs for books with unlikable female protagonists? I mean moraly gray,awful and absolutely insufferable ones lol
Let me see what I can do for you lol. I don't read a lot of contemporary literary fiction so far warning there.
Medea by Euripides: the classic
White Oleander by Janet Fitch: destroyed me the first time I read it, completely recommend
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell: extremely good, and look up the plot before reading it because I can see it being extremely triggering
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Scarlett O'Hara is the best villain protagonist of all time
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: Cathy Ames is a close second
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: I'd recommend Sharp Objects too but I didn't love Dark Places
Problems by Jade Sharma: this book by the late Jade Sharma is truly amazing and I'm sad she died before she was able to write more
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno: Zambreno's book of literary criticism, Heroines, is my personal favorite but this fiction book is great as well
Sula by Toni Morrison: just an amazing piece of literature
Mean by Myriam Gurba: very good, very sharp and well, mean
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante: listen, Ferrante tells it like it is and I think her nonfiction and essays are even better than her fiction
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh: if you want to be very annoyed, read the Goodreads reviews where a bunch of grown adults are wishing violence on a fictional 11-year-old
That should get you started!!
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Every book/movie/show Sara Quin has recommended.
and some reviews at the bottom, not the ones on skq reads
Books
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction by Reneta Adler
Against Everything by Mark Grief
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & and Clay by Michael Chaboan
A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
*An Education by Susan Choi
*Anything That Moves, Dana Goodyear
*Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel
*Artful by Ali Smith
*A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
*A Widow for One Year by John Irving
A Zine Yearbook by Jason Kucsma
Barbarian Days Surfing Life by William Finegan
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Barney’s Version by Mortecai Richler
Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
Borne by Jeff VadnerMeer
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan
By Blood by Ellen Ullman
By Grand Central Station by Elizabeth Smart
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis
Cats & Plants by Stephen Eichhorn
Changed my Mind by Zadie Smith
Cleopathra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Colour by Icons by Never Apart
*Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Death & Co by Alex Day and more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M Coetzee
Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
Do What You Want by Ruby Tandoh
Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechel
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Empire Of Illusion by Chris Hedges
Empty Nest
End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
Epilectic by David Beauchard
Essays Against Everything by Mark Grief
Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
*Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
Feeding My Mother by Jane Arden
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
*Flutter by Jennie Wood
Forty One False Starts by Janet Malcolms
Forgive Me if I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz Waters
Fosse by Sam Wasson
Fraud Essays by David Rakoff
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechel
Getting A Life: Stories by Helen Simpson
Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
*Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Groomed by Jess Rona
*Habibi by Craig Thompson
Half Empty by David Rake
Helter Skelter by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi
Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Machado
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II by Christopher Warwick
*H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald
*Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I Am a Camera by John Van Druten
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morries, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
*Independence Day by Richard Ford
Independent people by Halldor Laxness
Intimacy by Jean-Paul-Satre
I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames
I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro
Jamilti and Other Stories by Rutu Modan
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
*Kramers Ergot by Sammy Harkham
Krazy! By Bruce Grenville
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
*Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls- David Sedaris
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
*Light Years by James Salter
Likewise by Ariel Shrag
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish Perish by David Rakoff
Love In Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
Making Nice by Matt Sumell
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
May We Be Forgiven by A.M Homes
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Me before You by Jojo Moyes
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Music for Torching by A.M Homes
*My Education by Susan Choi
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
My Lifte in France, Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum
Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
My Struggle by Karl One Knausgaard
My Struggle 2 by Karl One Knausgaard
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Nasty Woman by Heather McDaid
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Nightfilm by Marisha Pessl
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics by Justin Hall
Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julien Barnes
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
Open City by Teju Cole
Opposite of Hate by Sally Kohn
*Paper Lantern: Love Stories by Stuart Dybek
Pauline Kael: A Life In The Dark by Brian Kellow
Paying For It by Chester Brown
*Pirates and Farmers by Dave Hickey
*Pitch Dark by Renata Alder
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
Polyamorous Love Song by Jacob Wren
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
*Provence 1970 by Luke Barr
Pulphead-Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
*Random Family by Adrian NicoleLeBlanc
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
She believed she could so she did by Julie ‘Hesta Prynn’ Slavin
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
Somebody with a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Special Exits by Joyce Farmer
State of Wonder by Ann Patchet
Stoner by John Williams
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
**Tenth of December by George Saunders
That Summer Time Sound- Matthew Specktor (sara narrates a part in the audio version)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Best American Comics 2007 by Charles Burns
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 by David Eggers
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
The Birth House by Ami McKay
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Dark Room by Susan Faludi
*The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
The Doors Of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions by Jonathan Lethem
The End of The Story by Lydia Davis
The Essential Elle Willis by Ellen Willis
The Fight by Norman Mailer
*The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
*The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Idiot by Elif Batumam
The Informed Air by Muriel Spark
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
*The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
The Irresponsible Self by James Woods
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom
**The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy by Julia Cooper
The Little Red Chairs by by Edna O’Brien
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
The Missing Piece Meets The Big O by Shel Silverstein
The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
The Nobody by Jeff Lemire
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
The People in the Trees- Hanya Yanagihara
The Notebooks of Malte Laurid’s Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Property by Rutu Modan
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
This life by Martin hagglund
The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes
The Slow Man by J.M Coetzee
The Spirit catches you and you fall down by Anne Fadiman
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner65
The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Things Are What You Make Of Them by Adam J. Kurtz
Thinking, Fast And Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman
*This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
To my Trans Sisters by Charlie Croggs
Tranny by Laura Jane Grace
True Stories by Helen Garner
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Unless by Carol Shields
Versed by Rae Armantrout
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov by Martin Amis
Vitamin PH: New Perspectives in Photography by Rodrigo Alonso
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee
WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution by Cornelia Butler
*Wake In Fright by Kenneth Cook
Wanderlust A History of Walking by Rebecca Saint
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
*We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Whatever happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Colleens
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
When Things Go Missing by Kathryn Schulz
*White Girls by Hilton Als
Winter by Ali Smith
Women by Charles Bukowski
(Woman) Writer: by Joyce Carol Oates
Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
*100 Essays I don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl
-Any works written by Renata Adler, Edward Albee, Roland Barthes, Alison Bechel, Beverly Cleary, J.M Coetzee, Susan Faludi, David Hickey, Elena Ferrante, Stephen King, John Irving, Jeff Lemire, and Lorrie Moore, and David Rakoff, Anne Rice, Donna Tartt, and John Updike
Magazines
Harper’s
Lapham’s Quarterly
Rolling Stones
SPIN
The Believer (August 2003, September 2004, November 2004, October 2008, November/December 2008, March/April 2009, June 2009)
The New Yorker
Bookstores
Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal
Sam Wellers Zion in salt lake LA
Strand Books
Housingworks
Mcleods in Vancouver
Powells
Sara wrote something short in ‘do what you want’ by ruby tandoh
also wrote the preface to jess rona’s book
Movies, Documentaries, Shows, Podcasts etc
Adventures in Babysitting
Arrested Development
*Bachelorette
Beauty is EmbarrassingBlack Power Mix Tape
*Bojack Horsemen (same artist as the Hang On music video)Broadchurch
Brothers and Sisters
Brown Girls
Bugsy Malone
Call me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino
Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson
*Charlie Rose
*ChungKing Express
*Dan Savage Lovecast
***DeadWood
Drinking Buddies
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Friday Night Lights
Full House
Game of Thrones
GarfieldGolden Girls Goonies
*Holy Motors
Home ImprovementI
nside Out
In The Loop
Lake
Legion
Little Shop of Horrors
L.O.V.E (tv series)
Madmen
Milk 2008
Moonlight
Nashville
Neon Bull
Orange Is The New BlackPhantom of The Paradise Rocky Horror Picture Show Sense8ShamelessShort Cut because 1992 Julianne Moore
Simon Killer
Sopranos Talk
RadioSpeed the Plow by David Mamet
Still Processing
Terminator 2
Terry Gross Fresh air NPR
The Bridge
The Crown
The Fall
The Fugitive
The Leftovers
The Minipops
The Thick of It
The Office (UK)
The Property Brothers
The Real Housewives of (anywhere)
The Wire
*This American Life
Tom Petty- Running Down A Dream
Trueblood
WALL-E
War of the Worlds
War Witch
Weiner-Dog
West Wing
2Dope Queens
13 Monkeys
30 Rock
and here’s some more book reviews from Sara
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
The truth is that I struggled to pick my favorite book or writing from Rachel Cusk. All three novels in her
Outline series
are fantastic, and I’ve reread each of them first with passion and then again with a studious eye. For me there is the lonely, yet pragmatic, keen observational protagonist that appeals to me deeply. But also, a woman traveling, forever on the receiving end of looping conversation with strangers. I find her writing extremely romantic. What I’d most like to include on this list, is a piece of her writing from the
New York Times Magazine
: "Making House: Notes on Domesticity." It is a perfect piece of writing about the struggle of making a home and living it in comfortably. “Like the body itself, a home is something both looked at and lived in, a duality that in neither case I have managed to reconcile. I retain the belief that other people’s homes are real where mine is a fabrication, just as I imagine others to live inner lives less flawed than my own.
”
Fire Sermon
by Jamie Quatro
Jamie Quatro’s novel about devotion, longing, lust and god was impossible to put down. I read it in one giant gulp. While male writers are given ample opportunity to write about these ideas, it still feels rare and thrilling when women do.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Everything Jesmyn Ward has written has haunted me afterward. Unblinking, brutal, heartbreaking stories. Her writing feels both modern and like something from a masterpiece that every student is meant to read in high school or college.
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
I love a hook, a melody that on first listen gives you goosebumps, or makes your stomach lurch up to your throat. Sometimes I hear one and I think, “that is a smash,” and then settle in to envy that I didn’t write the song myself. That was the feeling I had reading
I couldn’t help but compare our memoir because both books center adolescence and high school at their core. While Ben writes dazzlingly about masculinity and violence and the bubbling rage of teenage boys, I thought about the way we wrote about the paralysis and fear of being a queer girl in that same kind of world. While his boys turn their rage outward, we focused our violence inward, on the most tender parts of ourselves. Ben’s writing opens a door to understanding something about my own experience of those adolescent years. He sheds light on the parents and teachers whose complicated lives indelibly haunt our own, in ways we don’t realize until we become adults. It seems much of our public conversation revolves around what to do about and with men,
The Topeka School is a thrilling response. All of that to say, I think Ben’s book is a smash.
JUNE 3, 2009
1. The Flamethrowers by Rachel KushnerI was so captivated there was no choice but to finish it entirely in one long stretch of days. Passages so beautiful that I found myself re-reading them over and over again in amazement. I think it was in the Harpers Magazine review that they called it feminist and sexy. It’s true. An entirely fresh and inspiring heroine.
2. Light Years by James SalterSo many tears; on the tarmac, on the subway, tucked in my bus bunk. I will cherish this book forever. It is 40 years old and that made the discovery so much more powerful. It’s also a good reminder that I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges. I’ll cozy up with my tears any day, you can’t shame me!
3. Tenth of December by George SaundersThere aren’t very many writers with a body of work I love so completely. But, I think this is my absolute favourite. I have total admiration/awe for a mind this strange and wonderful
#tegan wrote a song for this book called Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs#it sounds like it could be in the con#you can search it on youtube it's there#there's some * asteriks cause she spoke mo#more about those#or liked them more#Sara Quin#tegan and sara#i'm sorry if i'm spamming tns tags with so much text i only have like 5 posts to make i swear#i've had this shit in my notes for like literally 10 years#from like#and stuff from their insta story or other things#interviews#SKQREADS#arrested development and the crown are both so good#and Moonlight
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On White People Losing Their Minds to America Dirt Crud. Again
So I’m making a brief blog post.
People may remember eber the controversy around American Dirt but not how much it pissed off Latine folks, especially authors. Pamela Paul (who has her own problems with being crap at research and manipulating reviews in her previous job for the NYT)
She decided to write another one-sided (her side) look at book controversy by making the Latine authors who made concise and reasonable critiques of the novel and how it got ridiculously propped up. (The linked article is not the only one)
I'm just taking this opportunity to share this video from one of the founders of Dignidad Literaria who was one of many Latine writers who criticized the novel for lifting from other authors (like from Luis Alberto Urrea’s By the Lake of Sleeping Children) and for the larger trend of Latin authors not being given the chance nor anywhere near as much compensation for their own stories Cummins watered down for her cheap thriller novel.
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Dr. Bowles is a prolific author, poet, translator, and professor (and a personal favorite academic of mine). I highly recommend his book, They Call Me Güero
"She's this middle-class, bookstore-owning woman who left Mexico with a small fortune in her pocket, like she was going to go to France or something. With inheritance money. With an ATM to her mom's life savings. And why did she leave? Because she was flirting with a drug lord who's now trying to kill her.”
If you want to hear more about the controversy give LatinoUSA’s podcast about it a listen.
#Youtube#dignidad literaria#latine#my Latin novel#caucasity#literary critique#latin authors#books#mexican#mexicano#latinidad#latine authors#ownvoices#whiteness#white nonsense#american dirt#Jeanine cummins#flat iron#publishers#publishing
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