Francisco Cantú Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Francisco Cantú is a writer, translator, and author. On social media hiatus (mostly). Writer, translator, Selena fan. Author of The Line Becomes a River. He/him.
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Karl JacobyFrancisco CantúTwo reverberant histories were @nickwestes' "Our History is the Future," chronicling unbroken lineages of indigenous resistance, and @karl_jacoby's "Crimes Against Nature," which reveals how criminalization precedes "wilderness." https://t.co/HeTMgjx3CJ https://t.co/2Dei5GgOWE
Paperback, 2014
$31.95Member price:$31.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
Kapka KassabovaFrancisco CantúOne of the strangest and most haunting books I read was "Border" by @Kapka_Kassabova, about the liminal mountains and river valleys at the crossroads of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece—an ever-shifting borderland that teems with ancient mystery. https://t.co/Mdjp1nocnw
Paperback, 2017
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation
Cristina Rivera GarzaFrancisco CantúAlso check out Cristina Rivera Garza's TWO newly-translated books published earlier this year: THE RESTLESS DEAD (trans by @robin_ep_myers ): https://t.co/7eOfe38zPb And the long-overdue classic GRIEVING (trans by @sarahkbooker): https://t.co/FSi9dLI438
Paperback, 2020
$27.95Member price:$27.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
Daisy PitkinFrancisco CantúA belated HAPPY PUB DAY to @daisypitkin and her beautiful debut ON THE LINE from @AlgonquinBooks. A deeply personal, lyric, and urgent look at the soul of the modern labor movement and what it truly means to build solidarity. Pick a copy up today! https://t.co/ZPiJieqqRg
Paperback, 2023
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
Eduardo GaleanoFrancisco CantúEach day I read a corresponding entry from Eduardo Galeano's "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History." Reading in this way, the book invites you to tap into the temporal resonance and lingering residue of historical joys and injustices. https://t.co/ACPFAzI0Jp
Paperback, 2015
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
Elizabeth Miki BrinaFrancisco Cantú"Speak, Okinawa" by Elizabeth Miki Brina was my favorite memoir published in 2021, offering deeply observed and lyrically rendered language for grappling with how cultural power and historical erasure seeps into our families and re-orders our identities. https://t.co/jC27bjvdrw
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Cristina Rivera GarzaFrancisco CantúAlso check out Cristina Rivera Garza's TWO newly-translated books published earlier this year: THE RESTLESS DEAD (trans by @robin_ep_myers ): https://t.co/7eOfe38zPb And the long-overdue classic GRIEVING (trans by @sarahkbooker): https://t.co/FSi9dLI438
Paperback, 2020
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong KingstonFrancisco CantúAnd finally, I caught up on a classic that I'd long been remiss in reading: Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," which is surely one of the most stunning blendings of memoir and myth that's ever made it to the page. https://t.co/Z9fHtKM1sY
Paperback, 1989
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Memory of Memory
Maria StepanovaFrancisco CantúMaria Stepanova's "In Memory of Memory" is one that truly floored me, a stunning hybrid of memoir, criticism, and lyric history, in the vein of Sebald, Nabokov, Rivera Garza, and other greats. https://t.co/fjUbU93rlB
Paperback, 2021
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
Héctor TobarFrancisco CantúMy review of @TobarWriter's OUR MIGRANT SOULS in @nytimesbooks, a resonant meditation on the many meanings of "Latino": https://t.co/OpolDnK4vH
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