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Craig’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Craig’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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| Fascinating meditation on the incursion of North American noise into South America with nods to John Cage's notion of silence as spiritual practice. Reminiscent of Beckett, Pessoa, Saramago but finally its own. As someone who's periodically struggled ...more | |
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| Marsha P. Johnson, one of the guiding spirits of the Stonewall Rebellion, has finally made it to the level of recognition she deserves, so it's really good to see this thorough, moving biography written by a trans activist artist who knows how the pi ...more | |
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| Really good biography of one of the strange denizens of the 60s scene whose center of gravity was somewhere near Andy Warhol's factory. A beautiful drag queen/performer and girl about town, Candy Darling played her life as a long drama which, sadly a ...more | |
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| Impressive debut that puts Allen on my poetry radar moving forward. She merges personal experiences of violence and love with a story hinging on a recovery of her Oneida heritage. Lived, and sometimes evaded, experiences living deep in the body. Slig ...more | |
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“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 09:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 772 | Mar 01, 2025 08:35PM |
