book reviews

Apr 16, 2009 20:25

I just put my first post up to 50books_poc , which is a community that came out of this year's RaceFail, which was an ongoing discussion about race, cultural appropriation, and racism in the sci-fi and fantasy communities.  It's a great place for book recommendations by authors you may or may not have heard of; I'm totally excited to, when I am picking my next book-for-fun, go through and find more genre works by people of color, since I tend to read very internationally/ethnically mixed in my literary fiction choices, but quite white for genre work.

The post is here, and is a review of Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati and Steven Salaita's The Uncultured Wars.

The other initiative I'm following that came out of RaceFail is verb_noire , which is a new press dedicated to publishing genre work about characters of color, queers, and disabled folks.  I'm really excited to go buy...basically whatever they publish.  I figure, I read sci-fi and mysteries, and Kate reads fantasy and mysteries (and totally used to read romance back in the day!  Oh, all those books I sold on eBay...), so we're a guarenteed market.

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