Min Hyoung Song Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Min Hyoung Song

Finished reading The Dawn of Everything yesterday and spent the whole morning trying to resolve an issue with the cell phone company, so I guess I’m an anarchist now. https://twitter.com/minhyoungsong/status/1458248523426811906

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@jshelat1 What amazing recommendations--I'd say all of them! But also consider Yeong-sik Hong's Uncomfortably Happily (Korean cartoonists are doing something rad but under-appreciated in the US) and Kate Beaton's Ducks (amazing new memoir of working in the tar sands).

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Love this book—Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism. I don’t know why, but this quotation in particular stands out for me: “If tricksters aren’t yours, leave them alone. They will kick your ass.” https://t.co/gfJvySGvyH

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Heard Claudia Rankine speak, and learned she wrote Citizen while getting breast cancer treatment. Since it might be her last book, she said, she really wanted to say what she wanted to say (paraphrasing obviously).

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And finally, bc I'm too tired to share more, @BrianGlavey pointed out Lauren Berlant's fascination with the lyric in Cruel Optimism. Something he said that I'm still thinking about: attachment is defined by Berlant as a situation and not a relationship.

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“Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.” —Sen Andrew Jarrett (TX) in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents (1998). https://t.co/lmda4iCPWc

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“Amazing Grace” was written by John Newton, a slave-ship captain turned clergy and abolitionist, a fact which might further add to the cognitive dissonance. https://t.co/FuKmsCgb60

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@wickettred @S_Insley_H Yes, just love In the Wake! Also, Avery Gordon's Ghostly Matters.

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Forgot to add the alt text: "Being Stuck at Customs: The Poetry of Solmaz Sharif," sponsored by Northwestern's American Cultures Colloquium. Zoom: https://t.co/frSygvLdoQ Time: 3 PM Chicago timezone.

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@c4noff Happy Birthday! And thanks for the invitation to share. 🎂 My favorite is David Graeber and @davidwengrow Dawn of Everything. Nothing I’ve read this year has made me feel so much the expansive possibilities of human existence.