The Devil May Dance: 2 (Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery, 2) by Jake Tapper (2021)

Chapter Six: Beverly Hills, California“‘They don’t worship money here, they worship death,’” Goode said. “That’s Faulkner, the patron saint of writers who come here to have our hearts broken” (58 ( Read more... )

Inside Story: A Novel by Martin Amis (2020)

PreludialYou won’t believe this, but turning sixty, for men, is a great relief. To start with, it’s a great relief from your fifties. Of the seven decades: the thirties constitute the prince, the fifties the pauper. I assumed that my sixties would differ from my fifties only in being much, much worse, ( Read more... )

Inside Story: A Novel by Martin Amis (2020)

Part III-Dissolutions: Antepenultimate
1 | The Shadow-Line…Nobodaddy For a while they all talked about a report on the financial toll of pandemic childhood obesity. That generation would be sickly, true, and very expensive to treat; on the other hand, they would cost practically nothing to police, being ( Read more... )

Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel (2021)

Part I. 1986
Chapter Three Isabel didn’t ask about the wife or, I was no less thankful, how I’d gotten out of Buenos Aires. Only about those struggles in Rome. So I told her how I was unable to find a place among the Argentine exiles there, those former members of the revolutionary movement who still spoke ( Read more... )

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde (2020)

from The First Cities (1968)
Father Son and Holy GhostI have not ever seen my fathers grave ( Read more... )

The Address Book by Deirdre Mask (2020)

Introduction: Why Do Street Addresses Matter?Founded in 1874, the Universal Postal Union, based in Bern, Switzerland, is the world’s second-oldest international organization. The UPU coordinates the worldwide postal system (3 ( Read more... )

"Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation (African American Life Series) by Thabiti Lewis (2020)

Introduction

Playing it safe doesn’t make you safe; being quiet doesn’t make you safe. Trying to play it safe makes you crazy.
Toni Cade Bambara

Black people are my business, sugar.Toni Cade Bambara ( Read more... )

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss (2020)

Consumption
Isn’t It Good?
“The desire to consume is a kind of lust,” Lewis Hyde writes. “But consumer goods merely bait this lust, they do not satisfy it. The consumer of commodities is invited to a meal without passion, a consumption that leads to neither satiation nor fire” (4-5).

The Right White
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy) written and gathered by adrienne maree brown (2019)The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible ( Read more... )

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers (2018)

Author’s Note
Unapologetic is a book for all people who are curious about and committed to the struggle for Black liberation. There are at least two ways that you can read this book. The first is to read it to build, sharpen, or deepen your ( Read more... )