rhubarb snackowski Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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re-reading parts of The Counterlife (the first Roth book i ever read!) and i can see why it gets lauded as his most formally accomplished book, but i still think that honor should go to The Ghost Writer

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bonus points: it uses Raymond Williams's keywords methodology

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i just finished reading Marie Moran's Identity and Capitalism and it was really good and also the first academic book i've read in a long while that is actually well-written

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i will like any tweet that speaks positively about Ellen Meiksins Wood's The Origin of Capitalism

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suddenly reminded of my comp lit prof who, asked to define Jean-Luc Nancy's "being singular plural," would simply say the words louder, with longer pauses between them: BEING SINGULAR PLURAL ...

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@fivefteditrix i read about that history in Andreas Malm’s book on fossil capital and i’m guessing it’s even more interesting as tv lol

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if you’re looking for something a bit smaller and more portable, i would recommend Michael Denning’s book about the cultural front