Victoria Brownworth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Victoria Brownworth

The great Alan Rickman is trending. My favorite film of his is Truly, Madly, Deeply--just a fabulous little gem about loss and renewal. He's just brilliant in it. You'll cry buckets he's so very good and Juliet Stephenson so good with him. Definitely see it if you haven't. https://t.co/fMwOqWPjGQ

Victoria Brownworth

Or I could write about how Toni Morrison does this in The Bluest Eye. Or how Virginia Woolf does it in To the Lighthouse. Or Dickens in Oliver Twist or Hardy in Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Or Austen in everything. Or Marquez in 100 Years of Solitude. Read more. Be smarter.

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Booker is calling out how Black women must always be double and triple qualified to white men. And ends with quoting Maya Angelou's poem "And Still I Rise." Bravo. #KetanjiBrownJacksonHearings

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@goodreads Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. But I also really liked my last novel, Ordinary Mayhem, which won the Lambda Literary Award for best mystery. That book stuck with me.

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Start your day with my uplifting in-depth cover story on Granny winner and folk rock icon, Janis Ian. She made history at 15 with her revolutionary hit "Society's Child," and has been putting out albums ever since. Ian has a new album and another amazing pandemic project. https://t.co/Cy1JAV8eKb

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"Children" is anyone under 18, but here are some absurd banned books: Forever by Judy Blume The Diary of Anne Frank Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas All Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's books are banned https://t.co/4bdPLPfpAQ

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Apropos of watching an episode of SVU about pop-up brothels, @LizzieBordenLA's #WorkingGirls is still one of the best films about sex work from the vantage point of the women. (Also she has a new book, Whorephobia, from Seven Stories Press.) https://t.co/xBNX41bc4H

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Here's a piece I wrote about Lorraine Hansberry a few years ago. What a terrible tragedy she died so young. She had such immense, unfettered talent. Imagine banning "A Raisin in the Sun." Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry https://t.co/yIGVxC1cOJ

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Very excited to see my friend and colleague @Will_Bunch's new book "After the Ivory Tower Falls" featured prominently in the NYT book section. If you have a kid or grandkid in school, if you are in school, if you teach, if you care about education, you'll want to read it. 📚 https://t.co/8RLZEnVjYz

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Ollie says that last tweet by Marjorie Taylor Greene comparing Trump to MLK was too much. Ollie recommends a nap and a good book. Ollie's reading Louise Erdrich's The Sentence. #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter https://t.co/Djgo7Wq3Mj