Anita Felicelli Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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interesting piece on Katherine Dunn -in thrall to Geek Love in high school. curious about Toad. https://t.co/knBtfOrhFl

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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer—its dust and lowering skies. — Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye☀️

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Vibrant and insightful @CalBookClub conversation about 'Your House Will Pay' with Steph Cha, Tod Goldberg, and John Freeman last night. If you missed it, you can watch the video/read a recap here. https://t.co/wZZPgBajQj

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Many years an admirer of @ilanaslightly's writing about books. I feel fortunate to be able to read her close examination of the opening pages of a prescient Bay Area hero's book. Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell. https://t.co/ccLR9tsuO6

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favorite first sentence of a novel? I'll start, from Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie: "I saw my mother raise a man from the dead." from I Capture the Castle: "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." from Beloved: "124 was spiteful."

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I love the incredible second gen books by Asian Am writers published this year - it's a powerful moment of situating the personal + individual within cultures + politics of more than one place. Latest find for me is Albert Samaha's brilliant Concepcion. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611521/concepcion-by-albert-samaha/

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looking forward to talking to Nandita Dinesh about her timely debut novel, This Place That Place, set in a country under military occupation, at Litquake on October 16 at noon in the Mission (The Drawing Room Annex) https://t.co/jeyejPpYFT

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brilliant essay on a Russian retelling of The Wizard of Oz by @bowlga "New Soviet realities demanded new stories & retellings of the old stories. By the 1920s, fairy tales had fallen suspect in the eyes of a new generation of critics and pedagogues..." https://t.co/PElQxfonnb

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You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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@ToTheHappyNone Plato's Republic +Socratic dialogues (prob Phaedrus and Gorgias) Kant's Critique of Judgment Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy Lyotard, "The Postmodern Condition" Merleau-Ponty, "Phenomenology of Perception" "Sophie's World" by Josteinn Gardner Kevin Perry's "Philosophy"