I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race, class struggle, wine, baseball, music…
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year.
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A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist …
An excellent book. Thought-provoking, and written in a style that's serious and direct and yet, accessible. While it was published forty years ago, I feel like all the issues she discusses are still with us. Hence it's continued pertinence.
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is a book by Benedict …
Seems like a fascinating topic, and very relevant for our times.
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …
Seems like an important read on my journey of self-discovery.
The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern …
Heck yes. Right up my alley.
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn
A 600+ page tour de force of historical fiction. A real education on the lives of immigrants from all over Asia and beyond during the tumultuous period of 1968-1977. Each year features a new cast, but they all revolve around the I Hotel in SF’s Chinatown. Wisened old timers mix with idealistic and determined twenty somethings, on a quest to protect what’s theirs in a land where the cards are stacked against them. Really engaging. An important read.
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn
A quick, short read. Mostly transcripts of conversations, plus a few short essays. The conversation with Dan Ellsberg and Ed Snowdon was pretty riveting. Thumbs up.
Essays and conversations in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their meeting with Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden in 2014.
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist …
Very much looking forward to this one.
This yearly collection of award-winning poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs is always a great read.
This copy of Amy Beal’s history of American experimental music in Germany was owned by Tom Verlaine. I purchased it from a Brooklyn book store. :-)
This copy of Garcia Lorca’s poems was owned by Tom Verlaine. I purchased it from a Brooklyn book store. :-)
Another set of semi-autobiographical stories originally published in one magazine or another. I find Joan Didion’s writing to have a mysterious pull on me. Almost mesmerizing in its phrasing, its stories pulled from her life, about things both mundane and surreal. I found this set to be slightly less compelling than that of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, but I was grateful to read it nonetheless.
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to …
One of the key scholars of the Intellectual Left in Britain, Stuart Hall wrote on culture, class, race, representation and politics.
