Christopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Performance historian, director of @ACinquiry. ART OF CONFESSION (https://t.co/iN3zKoRmm1). Now writing on tech&the arts, politics&performance.
Bluets
Maggie NelsonChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)@MatthewLevay @dan_sinykin No knock on 300 ARGUMENTS, but it’s pretty clearly based on Maggie Nelson’s BLUETS, which is excellent in its own right.
Paperback, 2009
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Sondheim: Lyrics: Edited by Peter Gethers with Russell Perreault
Stephen SondheimChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)Stephen Sondheim's lyrics run through my head on the regular. They reframe the world, and in that sense they have shaped my daily experience of the world. His death won't change that.
Hardcover, 2020
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Trouble in Mind
Alice ChildressChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)For anyone who shares my very, very niche interests……. …here’s a review of Ketanji Brown Jackson playing Wiletta in a Harvard student production of Alice Childress’s TROUBLE IN MIND https://t.co/mXt8pWEfbc
Paperback, 2022
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Structures: Theory and Analysis
Martin WilliamsChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)Trying to write about Raymond Williams's "structures of feeling," but just keep getting distracted by his delightfully weird use of colons and semi-colons. What a king. https://t.co/5EXWOinIoz
Paperback, 1999
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The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance
Anna Watkins FisherChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)Out today is my review of Anna Watkins Fisher's THE PLAY IN THE SYSTEM (@DukePress) I didn't know how queasily appropriate the title of that review would feel today: "How to Resist When Resistance Feels Impossible" https://t.co/MuFPYMsN7G
Paperback, 2020
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We're Gonna Die
Young Jean LeeChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)@SPBPHD Seconding others mentioned already, and adding ... Young Jean Lee, We're Gonna Die David Greenspan, The Myopia Nassim Soleimanpour, White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Mixed Media Product, 2015
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
John GuilloryChristopher Grobe (@cgrobe.bsky.social)@ryanbunch @donagalella @sarahinthepark And the locus classicus in literary studies is John Guillory's book CULTURAL CAPITAL.
Paperback, 1995
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