James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Tag: American literature
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
Sharks In The Time of Saviors [sic] by Kawai Strong Washburn
but sharks are evil, right?
After the Fall by Arthur Miller
thoughts on avoiding the canon
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Most of my Heroes Don’t Appear On No Stamps by Ran Walker
brief comments on a collection of kwansabas
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
powerful, tho rushed, 1930s novel about fascism in the USA
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
impressive experimental speculative fiction
Blues For Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
a sad play from JB the master
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
mediocre prose and a child bride: time to cancel Poe
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead’s intriguing, if imperfect, debut
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
v good poems tho a v poor blog post
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
fun frothy men’s fiction
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
[insert Nabokov/nobokov joke or something?]
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
Triumph Of The Now 