Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
Tag: racism
Passing by Nella Larsen (Norton Critical Edition)
a stunning harlem renaissance novel; scott muses on the hangover of growing up in a cultural desert
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
while we seek relief in schadenfreude over self-esteem, the world will never be fixed
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
Zora Neale Hurston (and a state-mandated medical exam)
in which the canadian state tests me for TB & syphilis
As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
powerful academic text on the impossibility of decolonisation within capitalistic structures
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
powerful stuff on racism, colonialism and botched governmental attempts to move on
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
phenomenal, wise, novel about the great migration and the manipulation of white working class resentment
the mirror and the light by hilary mantel
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
a blog post that fell apart so much i paused the blog for six weeks
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
Cane by Jean Toomer
ok toomer
Two Lives by Janet Malcolm
great literary biography but not AS GREAT as other malcolm i’ve read
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
great prose-verse novel about nunavut in the 70s
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
very early protest against colonialism
Native Son by Richard Wright
surprisingly good protest novel; thoughts on UK election result
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
The Mask That Sang by Susan Currie
impressive, purposeful, children’s fiction
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I read another great, serious, time travel novel
Triumph Of The Now 