joseph osmundson (all pronouns) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

The prose holds the emotional terror of losing so many friends and would-be lovers ... Als’s mournful essay shows how a virus upended an entire social world, and despite our effective treatments for the disease, the emotional scars haven’t healed.

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

Rereading THERE THERE by Tommy Orange and it is even better on the second turn. Rereading teaches us so much more about craft, momentum, story, and sentence.

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@NikoMBell love this, and also David Wojnarowicz's writing in Close to the Knives about queer liberation from a hellish suburban lifestyle

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@BiblioReckah Literally called the book “virology” and put a blowjob on page like 2 for a reason. If Maggie Nelson can get fisted on page 2 of The Argonauts, I can give head while talking about RNA viruses.

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

In Viral Cultures, an archivist’s work of scholarship, Cifor demonstrates how essential archives were to recovering and telling stories about HIV/AIDS, even as so many of the activists and artists chronicling the virus’s effects were lost to it.

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*ahem* I'm super happy to release the cover for my upcoming book VIROLOGY: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between, available June 7, 2022 from @wwnorton https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/virology-joseph-osmundson/1140167075 https://t.co/BlekAd0zPK

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

Let the Record Show is a kaleidoscope, telling stories not of a few cisgender, white, male heroes; she attempts to tell all of the ACT UP stories together, including those of women and people of color, an absolutely necessary act.

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@marinaweiss There’s an ODE in Sharon Olds ODES to her friends, and it’s a banger. I can’t remember the name and don’t have the book on me. Ode to my living and dead friends or some such?

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