Jesse Thorn 🤷‍♂️ (he/him) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jesse Thorn 🤷‍♂️ (he/him)

The greatest picture book writer in English is Maurice Sendak, and it isn't even close. Obviously Where the Wild Things Are is great, but my favorite is In the Night Kitchen. For me it is about independence and courage, living in a child's mind https://t.co/odVYzZFqTY

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Anyway, I watched Chris O’Dowd and Richard Ayoade on something the other day and was briefly sad because of their old boss, but they were so great it helped a bit. O’Dowd dropped a giant snow globe and broke it, it was funny.

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My favorite adapted folktale is Gerald McDermott's version of Anansi the Spider. He was an outsider to the story, a folklorist, so ymmv with re: appropriation. But it has incredible rhythm and stunning illustrations. https://t.co/JTtubpmfMs

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I feel in my bones that “How To with John Wilson” and “Joe Pera Talks with You” represent the best of straight, cis white maleness in America. Fellow straight cis white dudes: let’s all be more like these kind, modest, curious guys!

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Does your school library have a copy of my wife’s beautiful book “It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender”? If not, you can buy one for just sixteen bucks! If you’re lucky, you too can be written up by The Heritage Foundation’s “Daily Signal!” https://amzn.to/324fIUy https://twitter.com/iandprior/status/1471261861991657475

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Jesse Thorn 🤷‍♂️ (he/him)

Does your school library have a copy of my wife’s beautiful book “It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender”? If not, you can buy one for just sixteen bucks! If you’re lucky, you too can be written up by The Heritage Foundation’s “Daily Signal!” https://amzn.to/324fIUy https://twitter.com/iandprior/status/1471261861991657475

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A third Great Genius of picture books is Margaret Wise Brown. My favorite of hers is The Runaway Bunny. Besides the gorgeous illustrations, it so deeply digs into children's need to take on the world and still be in their parents' embrace. https://t.co/aVNcj0W4vU

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Soul Power is made from the same well of footage from which "When We Were Kings" was made. It's the musical festival that was planned alongside the Ali/Foreman fight, with the Fania All-Stars, James Brown, Bill Withers, BB King etc. Breathtaking footage and brilliantly made.

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This week’s #JJGo features standup comic / novelist-with-a-PhD Amy Silverberg. Only our second guest who has been published in The Paris Review. Get your act together, @nickadamsweb. https://t.co/0BBP8U2U9L

Jesse Thorn 🤷‍♂️ (he/him)

SIRI, PLAY FREDA PAYNE, “BAND OF GOLD”