Carolina A. Miranda Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Carolina A. Miranda

On why I often find TikTok more engaging than television as of late — plus, the Transcend Painting Group and why you gotta see Audra McDonald in Adrienne Kennedy’s “Ohio State Murders.” https://t.co/exYrMwRwCM

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You know that potato masher that Joan Didion writes about in "Where I Was From"? Naturally, I had to track it down... https://t.co/x4X3rAVP7D

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"How am I in the minority in New York? It’s New York!" Really interesting piece from Inda Craig-Galván on removing the white gaze from Jeremy O. Harris's "Slave Play." https://t.co/HMEbTt8JzQ

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Novelist @viet_t_nguyen in 2016 speaking presciently with @JeffreyLAT. I talk with the author tomorrow on the occasion of his publication of his new novel, "The Committed." Get all the deets here: https://t.co/CGRPatit6V https://t.co/mz4JJCB7L4

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Congratulations to @jessica_bacal for the publication of "The Rejection That Changed My Life" in which she invited me talk about all the ways that rejection is important. Find the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623830/the-rejection-that-changed-my-life-by-jessica-bacal/ https://t.co/KpypXjy3wr

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The arts newsletter is basically about what I read on my summer vacation: Benjamín Labatut’s disquieting novel “When We Cease to Understand the World,” whose opening chapter is devoted in part to the pigment Prussian blue — an ingredient in cyanide. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2022-07-09/benjamin-labatut-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-novel-essential-arts

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@postcardsfrmv Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Autumn of the Patriarch.”

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Beautiful!! Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Predicted the World We Live In https://t.co/Cw9aw41n9y

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A shabby 1970s L.A. and the world of grinhouse cinema — I have a look at the new graphic novel "Blood of the Virgin" by Sammy Harkham. https://t.co/6EQKdGJODb

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Have been reading Susan Orleans' "The Library Book" which is terrific and a great dive into L.A. history and the history of libraries.