Tami Sawyer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tami Sawyer

🥰 Over the moon to share that my first published essay will be included in Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy, compiled and edited by the incomparable @KeishaBlain. It’s an incredible honor to be a part of this collection. Please support and pre-order! https://t.co/nw44CPoa1x

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It’s 3:30 in Vegas. Usher’s team must have handed out some heavy NDAs. And Usher is prolly still protecting Chris. Because AINT NO WAY THIS VIDEO STILL AINT DROPPED! I haven’t started my day because of this! 😂😂😂 https://t.co/5kdFYsEMmB

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In February, I’m kicking off Liberation Book Club, focused on banned books, the books that are being removed because of the freedom that they can conjure. For Feb, we will be reading All Boys Aren’t Blue by @IamGMJohnson. More info in post. I hope you'll join me on this journey! https://t.co/1bkt8l5VNG

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In a Perfect World - Laura Kasischke - a flight attendant marries a pilot with 3 kids and ends up quarantined with them in a viral pandemic that collapses the US while he’s away flying internationally.Terrifying looking back on it. /3

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Just finished breaking down to my friend my belief in the “Jay Gatsby is Black” theory. “I’m not a flat earth-er but I am a Gatsby is Black-er.” If I were wealthy, I’d produce a Back Gatsby with Janet Savage on as advisor, writer, producer.

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Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - a lot of great short stories examining what happens when human hubris takes us to Mars plus what social & racial inequities are exploited. Pertinent considering the private space race. /6

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Absolutely. We have the Hollywood version in our heads. A section from Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets always sticks out to me where the master gets diarrhea and makes the cook clean him. So many scenes like this of daily degradation. https://t.co/rurM235LhS

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I really love @neilhimself. I was taught Edith Hamilton’s Mythology as a foundation of lit in my HS. Plus my parents intro’d me to Egyptian lit & African / AA folklore young. So I love mythology esp when it acknowledges diverse beliefs. This adaptation of #Sandman = chef’s 💋.

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Insomnia ordered Saeed Jones new collection "Alive at the End of the World," after reading this review. He's writing about what I think and write about - dystopia, grief, love. Looking forward to ingesting these poems. Seen on @rgay's roundup. @theferocity https://t.co/iAxCIVfMp4

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It is my favorite series in life. I ended the last book riveted and wanting the next book immediately. Doors. Moors. Ravines. Walls. Nothing has held my attention and adoration like Wayward Children and my dear Sumi. https://t.co/D1KMTu0t46

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