Jay Owens Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Andrea Long Chu, reviewing Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom’, Sept 2021. It amuses me that generational conflict — such an adolescent trope — should have become such a thing for my cohort only now, in our late 30s.

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“Reading the text together allowed us to dwell on A.’s rage. It showed me how the trauma of colonization seeps into all aspects of life.” @dtbyler on translating Perhat Tursun’s Uyghur novel ‘The Backstreets’ into English https://t.co/eopCbnHg3P

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One book that does self-insert exceptionally well is Richard Grant's 'Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads'. He drops into a seemingly purist historical travel-writing book about "life in motion" that he's never spent more than 22 consecutive nights under the same roof.

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+ Jon Day on HOARDICULTURE, reviewing ‘Possessed’, Rebecca Falkoff’s cultural history of hoarding https://t.co/hGkMue4OYw

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‘The chief pleasure of Graeber’s writing is not that one always agrees with his arguments about the past. It is rather that, through a series of provocative thought experiments, he forces us to reconsider our own ways of living in the present.’ —@fdabhoi https://t.co/h6cG8m3Jbn

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"I wanted to keep my body full of possibilities. I didn’t want to risk defining what it was or wasn’t too specifically in case what I made of it wasn’t what someone, someday, wanted or needed from me." An excerpt from CJ Hauser's 'The Crane Wife' https://t.co/trVm1EA8HH

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@jorie_graham Thank you! Pretty delighted to have your piece in the latest issue as well: I hope to do it justice in its distribution! It's this mix - from poetry to Hayek to Malian dispatches - that make the LRB such an extraordinary place to work🙏

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Ings also mentions "the gruesome Neckinger, the foul, lead-poisoned stream in which Bill Sikes got his just deserts in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist." In 1849, the Morning Chronicle described it as "The very capital of cholera" and "The Venice of drains".

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Folks: Is "rejecta" a word? It is familiar to me - but then I am indeed mired in discard studies. There are academic uses: "There hides in all of modernity's rejecta unrecognized potential for edification" (Greg Kennedy, 'An Ontology of Trash' https://t.co/2EYdd6gzLA)

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Ings also mentions "the gruesome Neckinger, the foul, lead-poisoned stream in which Bill Sikes got his just deserts in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist." In 1849, the Morning Chronicle described it as "The very capital of cholera" and "The Venice of drains".

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