Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.)

Gay Marriage is not worth saving. "Where The Gay Things Are" in my beloved @curaffairs, art by Seb Westcott. This is the history you need to read. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/08/where-the-gay-things-are https://t.co/0ESgSYDYlS

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Because I'm always at least five years behind and am secretly A Very Ill-Read Person, I'm only just getting to Sally Rooney's Normal People. I can see why so many found it rivetting and I'm not sure what all the hatred towards SR and NP is all about.

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As always, @curaffairs has a podcast about a current political situation. Here's @NathanJRobinson's interview with Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper on his book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK. Do listen, subscribe! https://t.co/ku87GV9g7c

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Today's DP is a podcast episode about "Know My Name," Chanel Miller's 2019 memoir. It's a more complicated book than I'd imagined possible and I really enjoyed this conversation with @ear2thepavement. https://t.co/HLJPj7yOqw

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Today's Daily Post (DP) from the archive is this conversation I had with the always amazing @sjbranson1 and @anarcho_thembo, about Guy Hocquenghem's Gay Liberation after May '68. We covered a LOT, from GH's radical politics to fisting and more! https://t.co/FotHWyiU7G

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A podcast on Kyla Schuller's The Trouble with White Feminism and Rafia Zakaria's Against White Feminism. Do listen, support! I always love my conversations with @ear2thepavement -- we always go to unexpected places! Do listen, support! https://t.co/wrRblOhpzu

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Only Hopkins, "Pied Beauty." "Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; ... All things counter, original, spare, strange; ... He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him." https://t.co/5UQJjZFN2V

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"A life well spent." Image: Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet. https://t.co/utTfi5lHf9

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"By twenty-five, he was rich, and could afford to become a bohemian." One of the best lines from _The Battle of Lincoln Park__ by @DanielKayHertz (a book you really should read if you're interested in the history of Chicago, as so many of you are these days).

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Reading Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and, as with Normal People, it's literally about class from the very first pages - unlike what "critics" have said. There's a certain kind of critic who can't understand class unless it's written like a Wobbly newsletter.