Contemporaries @ Post45 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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we were also delighted to be joined by Tina Post, who shared insights from her recent book "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" https://t.co/XZwlPSEGdA

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The titular character of Weike Wang’s “Joan is Okay,” @aytseng writes, “practices a form of affective minimalism” against “a white affective regime that demands both more and less emotion from Asian/Asian American subjects” https://t.co/taBI1QGTzx

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Just a few of the theorists of boredom cited in this cluster: Evagrius of Pontus, Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Ling Ma, Betty Draper, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leo Tolstoy, Theodor Adorno, Chantal Akerman, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lieutenant Commander Data, Dennis Rodman

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New cluster dropping Monday 30 Jan: DAVID BERMAN eds. @hering_david and @sm_osment feat. @AndrewEpstein3 @dr_mjcollins Marie Buck @feinsod @altkrelb @BNastanovich + something very special: two poems by David Berman https://t.co/fk1DACP6ei

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Tricia Malone’s “Breathing Lessons” is a reading of Anna Burns’s Milkman, & it’s also a moving elegy for her father. ->

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With the start of May arrived ALI SMITH NOW, eds. @carallewis and @debraraecohen, accompanying the release of Smith's new novel, Companion Piece. Cara writes that in Smith's work "the fantastical helps us to reimagine and even begin to remake the world" https://t.co/QQnLpba0mY

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In “Watertongue,” @__snigdha uses water as a fluctuating yet perduring image to think through Nepal’s political history, Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry, personal history, & more. Unpledging & seepage are forms of refusal here. https://t.co/l18tJrtxYy