Imani Perry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This book is so incredibly beautiful. Get The Lonely Letters. https://twitter.com/ashoncrawley/status/1475898490689568773

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The critic Patti Hartigan’s August Wilson: A Life traces the larger context of his achievement as thoroughly as it does his distinctive vision...Wilson’s vision conjoined hoodoo and history in completely singular ways. Against the odds, he arrived at the apex of American theater.

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I read Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man and it is as though Saramago’s Blindness and Kafka’s Metamorphosis had a baby, filtered through this age of white replacement theory and social media. Deeply provocative and I highly recommend it.

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Also, a note about last week’s confirmation of KBJ: Gen X Black American women with African/Afrocentric names and mamas who wore Afros and dashikis usually know a few Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni and Ntozake Shange poems by heart as anchors ❤️. 2 cents worth knowing.

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Reading is generally a deeply emotional event for me, but in the last couple of years Douglass Stuart’s Shuggie Bain stands out for me for how he captured the grief of living. I cried and laughed all the way through that book and I simply adore the protagonist, Shuggie.

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So excited to be in conversation with my friend from 2nd grade, the BRILLIANT Ilyon Woo about her book : Master Slave Husband Wife. It’s the extraordinary story of blk abolitionists William and Ellen Craft January 19 at the Philadelphia Free Library https://t.co/ggyS8eNI8c

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And last but not least South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Ecco 2022 https://t.co/8lBMK3cbGW

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In a political moment when the country’s ugly racial history is being openly misrepresented, Ward is depicting a time and place that often goes overlooked in contemporary American literary fiction.

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RT @JeremyLittau: This is a thought-provoking read by @imaniperry that draws on Du Bois' "The Comet." Her newsletter has been one of my fav…

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Oh! Also I recommend Tomiko Brown Nagin’s new book Civil Rights Queen a biography of Constance Baker Motley. Important and compelling history.