BOOKS OVERVIEW NOT FINISHED In late 2022 and crossing over into January 2023, I read the books in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series. There is an additional book, titled Survivor, that was originally published as part of the series, but which she subsequently disavowed and allowed to go out-of-print because she realized it was pretty shoddy […]
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Dread Nation – Justina Ireland And In the End: The Last Days of the Beatles – Ken McNab Deathless Divide – Justina Ireland The Dark Fantastic – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas* Project Management – Adrienne Watt Who I Am – Pete Townshend Bloom – Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau You Brought Me the Ocean – Alex […]
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The Black Mage – Daniel Barnes and DJ Kirkland West and East – Harry Turtledove Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline The Incendiaries* – R.O. Kwon Killing Poetry* – Javon Johnson Snapdragon – Kat Leyh Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino Why Won’t You Apologize? – Harriet Lerner Save It For Later* – Nate Powell Love […]
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BOOKLIST 2020 Love’s Not Colorblind – Kevin Patterson Bowie’s Bookshelf – John O’Connell Notes from Underground – Stephen Duncombe The Nickel Boys* – Colson Whitehead Information Services Today – Sandra Hirsch, ed. Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud The Last Emperox*- John Scalzi The Hard Tomorrow* – Eleanor Davis Too Much and NeVer Enough – Mary […]
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2017 BOOK LIST Children of the New World* – Alexander Weinstein Set the Boy Free** – Johnny Marr Substance: Inside New Order* – Peter Hook Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Joy Degruy We Gon’ Be Alright – Jeff Chang Tau Zero* – Poul Anderson Finks – Joel Whitney The Truth About Trump* – Michael D’Antonio The […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 5 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie, encouraging us all to read. This is the fifth in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For full background on this series of posts, see Part One. “Five Years” – […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 4 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie, reading again. This is the fourth in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For full background on this series of posts, see Part One. “Slow Burn” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6MDhtBEmCs The third […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 3 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
This is the third in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For full background on this series of posts, see Part One. “Law (Earthlings on Fire)” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddn-5uKH6MU Folks who know me […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 2 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie, reading. This is the second in a series of five parts, listing some of my favorite David Bowie lesser-known songs, in no particular order. (Also, see note at bottom about the complexity of mourning Bowie). For background on this series, please see Part One. “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” – https://www.vevo.com/watch/david-bowie/the-stars-%28are-out-tonight%29/USRV31300002 The gorgeously […]
READ MORESUBTERRANEANS: PART 1 in A Series in Five Parts, Running Down 25 of David Bowie’s Less-Celebrated Songs that I Love
David Bowie as Nikola Tesla in the movie “The Prestige” I grew up in the suburbs of Southern New Jersey as an MTV kid. As such, my first exposure to David Bowie was his 1983 video for “Let’s Dance”. Just like most young folks (and particularly kids raised as part of the early MTV generation), […]
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