Heather McCormack Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Heather McCormack

Herein Walt Whitman wrote the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS. No, really (99 Ryerson) https://t.co/vWS7LTjLsM

Heather McCormack

@CalMorgan Probably CBs. 1st time was March 1996, & who should be playing to underage Hevs and Adrienne but The Stone Coyotes. We hung out with them “backstage,” & they introduced us to Hilly 💝 The band went on to inspire Mr. Elmore Leonard and his novel Be Cool https://t.co/2S2UhPncdt

Heather McCormack

It’s really hard not to continue reading M.F.K. Fisher after my first Fisher (Two Towns in Provence), but as The Art of Taste is en route from VT, I am going to crack this MSP>CDG. Thanks again to everyone for their recommendations, which were of old school book Twitter quality https://t.co/f3P9KfqHAb

Heather McCormack

I lied: where are trans voices?! There were a fair number of big books nowhere to be seen on 2021 bests: The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine, The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc, Dear Senthuran by Awaeke Emezi, As a Woman by Paula Stone Williams

Heather McCormack

I’d add to Maris’s thread two novels that have Russian and/or Ukrainian subject matter and settings—Rachel Barenbaum’s Atomic Anna and Katya Kazbek’s Little Foxes Took Up Matches. Both have stunning covers https://t.co/GZ0XQlKPXY

Heather McCormack

I came home as I often do to book mail from @prhlibrary. Two fantastic memoir-histories by women of color, Sasha LaPointe’s RED PAINT: THE ANCESTRAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COAST SALISH PUNK and Danyel Smith’s SHINE BRIGHT: A VERY PERSONAL HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN POP https://t.co/7NmKlL08kv

Heather McCormack

I’d add to Maris’s thread two novels that have Russian and/or Ukrainian subject matter and settings—Rachel Barenbaum’s Atomic Anna and Katya Kazbek’s Little Foxes Took Up Matches. Both have stunning covers https://t.co/GZ0XQlKPXY

Heather McCormack

Over the moon to have Kim Fu’s new story collection, LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, in my TBR pile. Fu’s debut, FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, remains a favorite for its portrayal of a trans Chinese character and how she was forced to live a double life in small-town Ontario https://t.co/CDAjsQcSGr

Heather McCormack

Just seeing this sad news. She was only 58. Boyd edited Alice Walker’s collected journals coming April 12, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire 💜 https://t.co/ly88R5nPLi

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Heather McCormack

@Lindseym I agree. I dabble in theory through things like Michael Pollan’s Cooked and Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat, both of which became Netflix documentaries, of course