Things I like to read - saxophone * black lit * sci-fi * comics * pomo * theory
Languages I read in - English * Français
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Fantastic novel. As Kushner says in her introduction "Formally, stylistically, [Balestrini's novels] are in a category alone." The change in style as the narrator's political consciousness is awakened is a great thing of art.
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to …
An interest look at the way standpoint theory and deference politics get distorted with some thoughts on how to build alternative solidarities and dismantle elite spaces. This book is quite good and has a bunch of interesting historical asides that I wasn't expecting.
Xanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and …
An interesting meandering poetry collection that plays with authorial voice, meta-framing elements, and has a linked narrative throughout.
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands …
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …
I kept bouncing off this novel. I was intrigued but not gripped until the story truly started to click about a third of the way through and I could not put it down! Susanna Clarke publishes books very infrequently but 2 of her 3 are just fantastic accomplishments (I haven't read the third).
Fascinating novel! Told from the perspective of the white residents of a Southern town after a mass exodus of the Black residents. This perspective allows Kelley to get into some interesting exploration of how race relations exist and how they are perceived.