Meredith Talusan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Meredith Talusan

I read @tom_grattan's The Recent East several months ago and fell in love with it, so what a wonderful excuse to re-read it over the weekend so I can write the intro to this excerpt we're publishing today at @them, which only hints at the book's power. https://www.them.us/story/the-recent-east-thomas-grattan-excerpt

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Ecstatic to celebrate @ambertamblyn & co's LISTENING IN THE DARK last night though also cackling at the assignment being "silly face" and @RonanFarrow being like "smizing." Seriously grab the book; willing to bet you'll be as obsessed with it as I am: https://t.co/vGnp5KG5r7 https://t.co/ElzvrGPQo8

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The book I've been so obsessed with this AAPI History Month is Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng and have been waiting for it to be out so I have other folks to obsess with. Can everyone please read it so we can obsess together? https://t.co/KGuGyzU0RV https://t.co/LBZGTz5E0j

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@bluestockings Going back and forth between Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother and Elif Batuman's The Idiot!

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Makes me want to write a retelling of Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" using different-colored M&M's. https://t.co/qKi0qg3Cai

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A book that moves far beyond mere representation by managing to be both intellectually rigorous and exciting to read. It makes for a vital contribution to our understanding of gender variance and its place in social and political history, all around the world.

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Save the date: Feb 14 (!) at 6pm ET I'll be talking about ANONYMOUS SEX with @Hillary_Jordan, @cheryltan88, @JasonReynolds83; secrets will be revealed! 🍓🍓🍓 https://t.co/9J4QVOLkxH

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@alexmlwrites Er, "Exhalation"... My favorite Ted Chiang story is "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"

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My #Fridayreads is my wonderful cousin @MaryTalusan's Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines. It's both fascinating and activating: https://t.co/E7VLOy4acw

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@GarthGreenwell @randomhouse I've been gorging on dance memoirs so it'll be good to shift to another medium for a sec... highly recommend Bill T Jones's memoir Last Night on Earth if you haven't read it!