Jeff Melnick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Prepping for tomorrow's class by listening to our 14-song trap playlist, thinking about Jesse McCarthy's "Notes on Trap"--one of those rare essays that made me reconsider all my priors. Just astonishing.

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@varsha_venkat_ Andrew Holleran’s disco novel, Dancer from the Dance

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@MaraLeeGrayson Moby: "Oversized mug of mediocre milky tea." (My daughter when she was a young teenager actually said something similar about Paul Simon's voice--"It's like if you dropped some milk in to a glass of water.")

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@MLevantovskaya Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey is my fave novel ever

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@ThatJBF @AmyClukey I don't remember if Mary Otto's great book Teeth takes this question up directly but she sure has some fascinating material on the class/teeth nexus

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Finally got myself a copy of Eugene Richard’s Dorchester Days. Amazing book, utterly haunting cover image https://t.co/cdSB77bWYk

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@jeffreynparker @smithhemb And my favorite novel of all: Willa Cather’s Professor’s House

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@jjkamensky @varsha_venkat_ You reminded me of Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, my second fave novel of all time

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The amazing Scottish group Young Fathers seem to take off from the principle that Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On just wasn’t dark enough

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Obviously all the mid-20th century and beyond stuff about "hip" anatomized so well by Andrew Ross in No Respect