Adia Benton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Adia Benton

so a thing about Goldie Hawn... she is featured in Julie Phillips' early CA years in the memoir/Hollywood tell-all, You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again, and I can never stop thinking about Phillips' descriptions of her hygiene lol... you can totally see it.

Adia Benton

an impenetrable style, and an ability to carry death, like a bluebird, on the shoulder. —james baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Adia Benton

Reading Michelle Boyd’s _Becoming the Writer You Already Are_ in prep for teaching ethnographic writing. Really good, perfectly timed.

Adia Benton

But I don’t think I am. I read the intro and then read the blurbs. This *endorsement*: “In this grand treatise, Philip Pettit does nothing less for our time than what Thomas Hobbes did for his: lay out the nature of the state in a rigid and systematic way” 😂

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@PollyWilkins It’s really good. And then I just saw the movie based on Foster. I’m a Claire Keegan fan

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@raulpacheco So for exercises, Alive in the Writing. I used Soyini Madison’s chapter on writing from Critical Ethnography, Geertz’s Deep Play (turning points), Rebecca Carter’s piece about post-Katrina images of her father’s house (situation + story), Hannah Appel chapter on Enclaves (place)