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 […]
READ MOREBLACK, WHOLE Radio – Online Mixtape Series – Mixtapes 10-14
A few months back, I decided on a fun project: to begin to put out online mixtapes every two weeks or so. I decided to call give it a name I’ve had floating around in my head since I was probably in high school, “It Came From Outer Space (And IT Was Me).” I created […]
READ MOREBLACK, WHOLE Radio / Online Mixtape series – Mixtapes 7-9
A few months back, I decided on a fun project: to begin to put out online mixtapes every two weeks or so. I decided to call give it a name I’ve had floating around in my head since I was probably in high school, “It Came From Outer Space (And IT Was Me).” I created […]
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A few months back, I decided on a fun project: to begin to put out online mixtapes every two weeks or so. I decided to call give it a name I’ve had floating around in my head since I was probably in high school, “It Came From Outer Space (And IT Was Me).” I created […]
READ MOREBLACK, WHOLE Radio / Online Mixtape series – Mixtapes 1-3
A few months back, I decided on a fun project: to begin to put out online mixtapes every two weeks or so. I decided to call give it a name I’ve had floating around in my head since I was probably in high school, “It Came From Outer Space (And IT Was Me).” I created […]
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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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BOOK LIST 2019 This is the 10th Anniversary of the Book List! Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Go Ahead in the Rain – Hanif Abdurraqib* Pink Noises – Tara Rodgers Moshi moshi – Banana Yoshimoto Blackbird – David Harrower Art Sex Music – Cosey Fanni Tutti The Witch Boy– Molly Knox Ostertag** The Book […]
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2018 BOOK LIST Women of Ice and Fire – edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart Seventeen – Kenzaburo Oe So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo** J – Kenzaburo Oe Dark Money – Jane Mayer** Annihilation – Jeff Vandermer The Leftovers – Tom Perotta Educated – Tara Westover Fetch – Nicole […]
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