vince passaro Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@scintillen Can you tell when something is or isn’t? A ton of good fiction might qualify but predates our use of the term. Did we read Max Frisch’s MONTAUK in our class? A stunning example but from 1976.

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@bethanyaball @Liamjsm The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad. Both build up almost infuriatingly slowly and then come together like magnificent machines to knock you flat.

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@bethanyaball @Liamjsm The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad. Both build up almost infuriatingly slowly and then come together like magnificent machines to knock you flat.

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@maggiewestrum G. Won the Booker Prize in '72. By John Berger. One of the great writers of the 20th c and early 21st as well, to my mind. As the orig. Booker money came from slave labor in the Caribbean Berger created huge scandal by donating the prize money to the Black Panthers. https://t.co/FfG7QdTxqN

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My dear friend Joshua Furst, author of the terrific, beautiful, challenging novels REVOLUTIONARIES and SABOTAGE CAFE, has a story just out in THE BAFFLER and since it too is terrific, beautiful and challenging, plus easily available, you should read it. https://t.co/q0dNdue0dS

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People think there’s hope. I read this and I think, forget it. I also think of Richard Hofstadter’s brilliant Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. He got it. He just didn’t know how bad it would get. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/us/arkansas-pastor-evangelical-churches.html?referringSource=articleShare

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@maggiewestrum Anne Carson NOX. Check it out.

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I'm wading hip-deep through Graeber and Wengrow's important but highly repetitive revision of human anthropological history THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING and found this line of pure poetry in the index: POWER see DOMINATION

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@theactualemma Joseph Conrad novellas “Youth” and “Typhoon”. OBrien’s Master and Commander books and film. Horatio Hornblower. Mutiny on the Bounty . Ship of Fools. And the biggie, Moby Dick.

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@bethanyaball @Liamjsm The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad. Both build up almost infuriatingly slowly and then come together like magnificent machines to knock you flat.