@rachelcleves@historians.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Rachel Hope Cleves is a historian and author. Well-fed. Historian. Unspeakable, 2020. Charity & Sylvia, 2014. Reign of Terror in America, 2009. Next up: Perverted Appetites.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr@rachelcleves@historians.social@JonathanEarle2 I’ll put it on the list. I was the outlier who didn’t love All the Light We Cannot See, but I’m open to giving Doerr another shot.
Paperback, 2017
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Roderick Hudson ...: In Two Volumes
Henry James@rachelcleves@historians.socialWho is ready for a 200-tweet thread of the gayest sentences in Henry James's novel Roderick Hudson?
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The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen@rachelcleves@historians.socialThe historian narrator of Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” reminiscing about History department culture ca 1960 https://t.co/2oJGBVojHn
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Tarr
Wyndham Lewis@rachelcleves@historians.social“He was very athletic, and his dark and cavernous features had been constructed by Nature as a lurking-place for villainies and passions.” I’m just going to keep tweeting homoerotic passages from classic literature until the lights go off. source: Wyndham Lewis, Tarr (1918)
Paperback, 2010
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Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz@rachelcleves@historians.social@samhaselby Disagree. Synchronic histories can expose cultural fractures, or debates over meaning, revealing historical complexity. And they can be fascinating reading. Take for example Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s “Rereading Sex” https://t.co/FBDSjrxJ9G
Paperback, 2003
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The Searcher
Tana French@rachelcleves@historians.socialHoliday fiction glut going very well. If you’re looking for recommendations: 1. Tana French’s newest, “The Searcher,” has an amazing scene where a quiet country pub is revealed to be thrumming with barely disguised menace. Worth the price of the book. Much better than her last.
Paperback, 2021
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Trilby
George Du Maurier@rachelcleves@historians.socialWTAF? Of all the anti-Semitic imagery in fiction I've encountered, this might be the weirdest: comparing Jewish "blood" to the Spanish white wine, Montijo, that is added to sherry to preserve its flavor. Source: George Du Maurier, "Trilby" (1895). https://t.co/Q6OyPqyoWS
Hardcover, 2020
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Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell@rachelcleves@historians.socialOne of my students used trans artist Ria Brodell's website for their paper, and now I'm checking out their art and it's amazing. These are from the "butch heroes" series, which are collected in a 2018 book #butch #LGBTQhistory https://t.co/xaqw7JQzCS
Hardcover, 2018
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Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes
Clarence Edgar Edwords@rachelcleves@historians.socialYou'd need a lot of garlic butter for a snail of this dimension. Source: "Bohemian San Francisco, its restaurants and their most famous recipes" (1914) #histfood https://t.co/HfcbEGoTpB
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Debby Applegate@rachelcleves@historians.socialWhen I was a kid, I heard the expression “nogooodnik” all the time (I still use it), but I never heard anyone called the opposite: an “allrightnik.” I wonder why the former outlasted the latter? Source: @Debby_Applegate’s bio of Polly Adler, “Madam.” https://t.co/Go6csdcfKB
Paperback, 2022
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