i think the summer one Akon started went excellently, but she even suggested we start a new one, so here it is...

outside of Janey I think many of us slow down with our reads in the fall cause of work and the cold or whatever...

but yeah, thought I'd start a new thread

I recently read Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera. It was translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman; my homegirl is reading it in Spanish and we agree that Dillman did a hell of job with the translation. It's a slender book, 111 pages, a unique single person migration novel that blends minimalist elements of a detective story and surrealism. Since many of our students are second gen Latinos/Hispanics we'll be reading it with them next semester.
4/5

I'm also almost done with Dana Johnson's In The Not Quite Dark... collection of shorts about Los Angeles, Black folk on the periphery of the stereotypical collective imagination, without having the tone of "we not like those enwurds over there". SHE CAN WRITE THE SHIT OUT OF SOME SENTENCES. Just a plethora of beautiful images and insights strung together. Overall, some of the stories have been good, not great, but it's def worth a short story aficionados time.

It's now September 12 and I have not finished a single book yet this month.

Partly that's due to my starting The Sympathizer on audiobook and then switching to the hardcover and starting over. Partly it's because I started And Wind Will Wash Away as an e-book and found that I CANNOT stay focused on e-books so I'm waiting for the hard copy to arrive in the mail. Partly it's because I decided to re-watch season 1 of True Detective and that has taken up some time that I would otherwise use for reading but, really, this is weird.

Coming up in my tbr:
Riverine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114142-riverine
Separate and Dominate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23165017-separate-and-dominate
Season of Migration to the North, which I've heard is fantastic https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6145869-season-of-migration-to-the-north
also: The Fire This Time https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28505023-the-fire-this-time

I'm also listening to Tristram Shandy on audiobook. It's not a great one for audiobook because the whole point is that you have to pay attention to the details to get the punchlines that come 100 pages later, but.... yeah, so I'll probably switch to hard copy sooner or later.

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All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

Also let me know about the Sympathizer. I read ur not yet done review on IG yesterday, and it peaked my interest.

Season 1 is some of the best tv I've ever seen. This is at least my third time watching it.

I rated The Sympathizer 5 stars on GR, but I think I rounded up from 4.5. The story is well told, and the ending is the only way it could have ended but it still felt choppy or... like it was another book. Which it kind of was. But not really. Anyway, just a very tiny reservation on a very good book. I recommend it.



~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

i recall you saying you don't watch much tv

will add Sympathizer to my list

I love House of Cards, too

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

|\_/|
='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

i have a feeling that outside of tedious health-related articles and dense textbooks, my reading for fun might just fall to almost zero
as i speak, i have to return a number of books to the library, that i wasnt able to finish over the summer:(
currently they are accruing lib fees as i stubbornly hold on :o(

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

Between the World and Me - The gawd Coates
rereading The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
The Art of Living - Epictetus, translated/interpreted by Sharon Lebell (this shit is piff, i'm on my self improvement tip and this is as close to a manual on living as you can get)
The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson
The Black Atlantic - Paul Gilroy (this book makes me feel dumb)

Really dig your posts astralblak, you're way more well read than I am and have a lust for learning and curiosity that I once had but lost due to my own indolence and drug abuse and am now attempting to regain. Def taking notes and putting stuff into the reading queue. Live in dena right now so I need to be hittin up these LA art galleries too

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If life is stupendous one cannot also demand that it should be easy. - Robert Musil

hope you enjoy Coates as much as I did

also, man, Black Atlantic, Gilroy was just mad thorough. Obscene intellectual. read it like a decade ago. I should return to it soon. I hope you power through, some it is super "academic-y" though

and breh you def need to hit up Moca at Geffen. this Doug Aitkens video installation exhibit that opened this weekend... wewww. straight up felt like i was inside a sci-fi film; really trippy. Blum and Poe (off La Cienega, between Washington and Venice) gotta dope little show right now with the painting of Henry Taylor and a film by the Gawd Kahlil Joseph

SIDENOTE: I was listening to NPR and there was a segment where Kratom was being classified as a sched one drug, made me think of your post from the past two years. did you get your last bags before the gov shutdown?

You might have seen me mention it on IG. They just discussed Between the World & Me. http://tinyurl.com/zrtx8j6

The podcast is usually two white guys who are in Spain for some apparently academic reason, but for this discussion, one of the usual guys was out and so they brought in another guy and a Black woman for the discussion, which I appreciated.

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

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I'm still mad about that. Just a blatant middle finger in the face from the government/big pharma. Like they know that we know the drug war is bullshit, they on some "what you gon do tho?" mess at this point.

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If life is stupendous one cannot also demand that it should be easy. - Robert Musil

>Between the World and Me - The gawd Coates

This is also coming up for me this fall, just learned about him from my brother in law.

See ya, JAK
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/books/booksupdate/man-booker-prize-shortlist.html

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

with something new. i already read Charcoal Joe and i need more

I was thinking about starting with Little Green or Ruby Gold (iirc)..

I read Salem's Lot last fall, my first King book, and loved it, so I'm going to make it a point every fall going forward to knock out one of his books. this year I'm going to take on "It".

other than that I still have a few books on hold at the library that I'm next up or #2 on the waiting list, and in the meantime I'm listening to Pollock's "The Heavenly Table" on audiobook, finishing up True Grit and about to start another country noir-ish book I stumbled upon goodreads called "Bull Mountain".

& two I could do without. Overall enjoyed it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101484-afrosf

M.K. Asante Jr. "It's Bigger than Hip Hop: Rise of the Post-Hip Hop Generation"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4563994-it-s-bigger-than-hip-hop
Very good book, and would even go as far as saying it's a must-read.

Right now I'm reading

African Philosophy: The Essential Reading
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/680908.African_Philosophy_Essential_Read?from_search=true

Grada Kilomba "Plantation Memories"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617863-plantation-memories?ac=1&from_search=true

& another scifi anthology

"We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18096579-we-see-a-different-frontier?ac=1&from_search=true

http://islasoul.bandcamp.com

Don't ask. Its coming.

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One Hundred.

the Noughts and Crosses series

i need to double back for the rest of Helen Oyeyemi's books and Nnedi book of the phoenix and Jemisin The Obelisk Gate

hopefully will hit up Yaa Gyasi Homegoing and Colson Whitehead The Underground railroad, Zadie Smith Changing my Mind and Swing Time if it comes out soon this fall as well


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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

about to dig in to Buck by MK Asante


kev

for four days now. There was finally a tie in with her reading the paper but I'm so like.... man fuck this shit. I promised someone I'd read though, so I'll persevere There are some beautiful passages in the book. Bt the first person shit (i see you astral) has made for a horrible excuse to just run on and on without getting nowhere, and make me care less about characters I was actually digging.

(History of Seven Killings btw)

I really gotta finish this because I'm got a book club obligatory before the end of the month. And then there's the shit I'm waiting to get into:

Everfair
Obelisk Gate
The Mandibles
Terranauts
Necessity

Oh and thank yall for keeping my reading habits up for real though. These last three years have been my most read in a decade. I think I'mma get the writing back in a groove this winter too.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

like the method acting of contemporary literature. It seems like folk not only default to it, but think they on some shit just cause they can hop in and out of different "bodies"

I know part of the reason I've loved "Lagoon" and "Signs Preceding..." so much is because they were in 3 POV.

and keep writing dude. you onto sumthin.

I don't like knocking people's success but I don't know.

What I hear this praised for is the 'ambition' and 'uniqueness' which are all great but do a good novel they make? It's fundamentally a good story, but it's like he got so many handicaps.

Familiar central figure everyone wants to know more about (even in a fictionalized context)
Exotic location with a marginalized population in literature.
An inglish dialect that is at once familiar and foreign to most readers.

So then the ambition is doing all of that in a near 700 page book, and on top of it doing multiple characters all in first person voice.

That's the ambition. Because of the nature of the story arc, with those things all he really had to do was make it to the end to have achieved it.

But for me the way he did it was sloppy.

Now I'm not Jamaican, or any type of authority, but I dated one for a decade, in NY during the period he's writing, so it wasn't that foreign to me. People talk about how he is able to write from so many points of view so well, and I'm like ehhhh. All the Jamaican men have the same voice and perspective. There's only one Jamaican woman and she's... pssssh. The cuban is a fucking caricature. And the white men not too distinct. You know the difference between everyone by their actions, but not their voice. There's a phrase that's repeated by like three characters that's meh.

Even more there really isn't enough diversity of Jamaica and there could have been. Even in the story he's telling it could've been so much more.

But the first person shit is what really drags it. There are like full page run on sentence/thoughts in patois, which just repeat the same shit over and over. And sure maybe that's a device to really put you in a persons head, but used over and over it just drags shit.

Then shit gets formulaic in the middle. Then the formula gets dropped. There's a whole thing that's prevelant in the first two thirds that doesn't come back in the last third. And so much information that by the end is clear was just there for him to throw the clever writing in there, not really drive the story. The writing is clever I will give that much. Some of the descriptors, especially coming from the first person are really real. But they all come at you the same way obviously from the author and not necessarily the character.

It's interesting reading his acknowledgments in the back to.

When did authors start having teams of researchers. Like he says something about having an idea and sending his researches off to go figure it out for him. I was like hanh?

At any rate, I'm still glad i read it. Learned something from it for sure.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

was thinking of sliding H7K up with all the hype, but nah, even the 700pgs made me want to wait


sounds like some things that would annoy me as well

They always have the preview pages from other books marked on the side. But the damn appendix keeps getting me. Like I be thinking there's a whole other chapter left and nope!!

Some good stuff happened in Obelisk Gate. Stakes got higher, folk got stronger. It's all going to come down to part three on some family ish. Looking forward to it.

Been slow going with all the work shit these days. I've got Death's End for this plane ride, then Everfair coming. Also reading Hillbilly Elegy for a club.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

Fucking Liu went through ten dimensions!!

I was hesitant after the last one because it just sat uncomfortably that he'd written these two books just to put forth a theory he could condense down to an article. But then he goes and writest this shit which brings it all together like damn. Some issues with characterization (particularly of th female protagonist) but so strong on the long arc and on the scientific integration.

There's a chapter on the fourth dimension that's incredible. And he literally takes it to the tenth spanning the story out over billions of years. Insane.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

that story is amazing: about Los Angeles. about slavery. about Mexicans and Africans who settled it. about history. about gentrification. about roads and buildings and "great" white men. and how time erases us all. so. gawd. damn. good.

This book really surprised me, read it in a weekend because I couldn't put it down, even choked up a couple times.

I rarely leave reviews on Goodreads but left one for it:
Wow. As a former collegiate runner who still runs, loves Nike (even a stockholder), been in Tokyo for work meetings and factory tours, loves bios, travel and ran around Eugene I may be partial but this was great. Way above what I'd expected.

See ya, JAK
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i don't read a lot of novels, mostly non-fiction, but I could recommend Butcher's crossing ("coming of age") and Stoner ("acceptance"), to everyone. Novels usually bore me very quickly, or I find them too difficult to read...don't know exactly why that is... maybe because I feel like I am not learning anything reading them. Novels I used to like : Catcher in the rye, 100 years of solitude, 1984... just to give you an idea to what you might like about the John Williams novels... took me 100 pages to get into Stoner, but I'm glad I persisted; Butcher's crossing grabbed me right away...

On the reading list (been holding of, and probably will do so for a while... books about psychology, not popular psychology) :

- Intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy - Patrica Coughlin Delia Selva (based on Habib Davanloo, for your information
- Transactional analysis in psychotherapy, Eric Berne
- The haunted self. Structional dissociation and the treamtment of chronic traumatization, Onno van der Hart and others
- How does analysis cure? by Heinz Kohut (development of self-psychology, for your information)
- Psychodynamic psychiatry in clinical practice, fifth edition (DSM-5 edition), by Glen O Gabbard... some consider this the bible... I think it is a good, very clear introduction into psychodynamic thought and practice (have read parts of it)

Read Stoner a couple months ago and enjoyed it also. Although it feels weird to say enjoy when so much of the book was life going bad for a good guy.

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Good Indian Girls by Ranbir Sidhu

And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile

I'm currently reading "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi and The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhymes!

I write and stuff. http://www.crystalsenterbrown.com

to get back into a regular reading schedule
(and reach and pass my target of 60 books this year- im 3 books short at the moment)
will be looking at some of the recommendations on here
but im just about to start 2666 by bolano, which is like 1000 pages

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

I've nearly started that book so many times. At this point I don't even remember why it's on my list to read.

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Currently reading: Lego, A Love Story by Jonathan Bender.
-I've rediscovered by joy of building with Legos. It makes me want to build something bigger. I'm thinking of trying to apprentice building a tiny house or container home.

I just finished Bloodchild, Octavia Butler
- Really good short stories. But she could do no wrong in my eyes. I've always enjoyed her work.

And I think I'm going to get the Dan Brown/Robert Langdon books. I actually watched the Davinci Code last night and it made me want to read the books.

"We don't make mistakes, we just have happy little accidents" - Bob Ross

"I'm wearing a MSU Tshirt because I went to MSU, you are wearing a UM Tshirt because you went to Walmart!" -unknown.

http://bjsquirrelchronicles.blogspot.com

Boy, was that a great book!

Now starting Season of Migration to the North.

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

|\_/|
='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

just finished reading this book, not really sure how i feel about it
i kept waiting for it to reach its peak, but it really never did
im a big fan of easy's mysteries and so i guess i had high hopes for this book
i also wasnt too thrilled about the tempest tales
so maybe i just dont like when he writes these kinds of books (i dont know what this genre is, speculative fiction?)

oh, im now reading gloria naylor's 1996
about halfway through

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

I enjoyed that a bit better than silver box, but overall his spec shit is strange. Kinda stuff that makes you think, what the hell made him think of that. HE carries it through to the end, but it's just an odd angle from the writer you know in other types of fiction.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

> HE carries it through to the
>end, but it's just an odd angle from the writer you know in
>other types of fiction.

i did like the social commentary in the book, but the story itself just did not grab me at all. so yea, im not too sure this is his strongest suit
i did however meet mosley a few years when i lived in new york (in brooklyn) and he was so nice. i will always support his work, for that reason

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

soon.

Slade House is a quick, shallow, but fun read. Enjoyed it a lot more than Bone Clocks, which bored me. The books are related, but it's not mandatory to read Bone Clocks first.

I heard Pale Fire is a difficult read, hopefully it won't completely fly over my head.

Did anyone else have a hard time getting through it? I keep putting it down and picking it back up but lawd...

It's really well read. I found it engrossing. And, frankly, horrifying.


~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

|\_/|
='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

Or maybe just allow us who didn't add ourselves to the previous post?

#NP: Janelle Monae-DC, Pusha T-Daytona, Royce-Book of Ryan, Blue Note All-Stars-OPOV, Chris Dave/Drumhedz-Glow, Conway-GOAT, Black Milk-Fever, KRIT-4eva Is a Mighty.., Phonte-NNIGN, August Greene, Jericho Jackson
@LargesseMorlu

#NP: Janelle Monae-DC, Pusha T-Daytona, Royce-Book of Ryan, Blue Note All-Stars-OPOV, Chris Dave/Drumhedz-Glow, Conway-GOAT, Black Milk-Fever, KRIT-4eva Is a Mighty.., Phonte-NNIGN, August Greene, Jericho Jackson
@LargesseMorlu

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

thats so friggin awesome
man booker for the win!

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

and Chimene Suleyman's essay 'My name is my name' almost had me in tears.

I'm only 150pp in but wow. This is something else. It's insanely fast paced, chapters are short, months pass between them and from different character perspectives. In some ways that could make for a difficult read but it's working for me.

I was surprised by the white savior aspects of it, though admigtedly that's a bit harsh. White women in particular which I think plays to the genre's general audience, as does the lesbian love affair. But none of that thus far distracts from the setting and circumstances which make this unique.

Once again though I'm kinda done with maps and character guides at the onset. They give too much away.

I hope one of gall picks this up cause I need more opinions.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

posted here cause they will be streaming the events live

http://www.albertine.com/festival-albertine-2016-november-2-6/?utm_content=buffer6d9db&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Curated by National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the third annual Festival Albertine will take place from November 2nd through 6th, 2016. The Festival will explore the changing nature of identity and how the arts interrogate our national, social, and cultural labels today in France and the US.

Showcasing Albertine’s mission to nurture French-American exchange around books and ideas, the Festival will bring together a wide range of American and French writers, artists, thinkers, and scholars including including Kehinde Wiley, Jacqueline Woodson, Iris Deroeux, Benjamin Millepied, Claudia Rankine, Darryl Pinckney, Benjamin Stora, Jelani Cobb, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Thelma Golden, Jennifer Homans, Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Pap Ndiaye, David Simon, Catherine Meurisse, D’de Kabal, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Claire Diao, Nina Shaw, Kamilah Forbes, Laurent Dubois, Scholastique Mukasonga, Darryl Pinckney, Chris Jackson, Denis Darzacq, Thomas Lax, Charles Robinson, Zahia Rahmani, Virginia Johnson, and Adam Shatz.

When Will France Have Its Barack Obama?
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2016
7:30PM
Looking at differences in construction of identity in France and the United States, journalists Iris Deroeux and Jelani Cobb, and historians Pap Ndiaye and Benjamin Stora will ponder what specifically allowed for Barack Obama in the U.S. and how a similar evolution could happen in France. Moderated by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 2 at 7:30pm (EST).

From the Margins to the Mainstream
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016
7:30PM
Producer David Simon (The Wire); graphic novelists Kelly Sue Deconnick (Captain Marvel) and Catherine Meurisse (La Légèreté); and spoken word artist D’de Kabal (Chants Barbares) will examine how, and why, certain art forms (from television to comic books and slam poetry) move from low art to high art, and how those same art forms are considered within the realm of French and American culture. Moderated by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 3 at 7:30pm (EST).

Blacklisted: From Hollywood to Paris
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016
7:30PM
Filmmakers and industry experts Claire Diao, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, and Nina Shaw will consider questions of diversity, inclusion, and representation in French and American cinema, from Hollywood to Cannes Film Festival. Moderated by Kamilah Forbes.
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 4 at 7:30pm (EST).

Europe and America in the Black Literary imagination
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2016
5:00PM
After the Second World War, prominent African-American authors such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes made Paris their home. French authors have themselves long been fascinated by the United States, and New York in particular. This common interest has fed many authors’ writing, both thematically and stylistically. The essayists and novelist Laurent Dubois, Maboula Soumahoro, Darryl Pinckney and Scholastique Mukasonga will reflect on this mutual fascination and ponder how it has impacted their own work and influenced literature more broadly. But how substantive is this connection—is it myth or reality?
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 5 at 5:00pm (EST).

Art, Race, and Representation
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2016
7:30PM
Artists Denis Darzacq and Kehinde Wiley, curator Thomas Lax, and sociologist Nacira Guénif-Souilamas explore race and representation in contemporary art through practice and process in a conversation moderated by Thelma Golden.
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 5 at 7:30pm (EST).

Every Name in the Street
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016
3:00PM
Considering language as a site of political struggle and a reflection of the social constructions that shape our worldview, Claudia Rankine, Zahia Rahmani, Jacqueline Woodson, Charles Robinson, and Adam Shatz will discuss the intersections between identity, language and politics. What is the role that literature plays in challenging our preconceptions and reimagining society?
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 6 at 3:00pm (EST)

Race, Equity, and Otherness in Ballet and Society
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016
5:30PM
Co-presented by the Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University
Made possible by Michele and Timothy Barakett and Cheryl and Blair Effron
Recently, ballet companies have been denounced for uncritically perpetuating traditions at odds with contemporary society and notions of racial diversity, equality, and social justice. In a conversation moderated by Jennifer Homans, Benjamin Millepied, and Virginia Johnson discuss race, equity, and otherness in ballet, against a larger backdrop of identity politics in American and French society today.
Watch this event live via Livestream on Nov. 6 at 5:30pm (EST).



Events will take place at Albertine Books, located in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York (972 Fifth Avenue). Festival Albertine is free, open to the public, and will be streamed live at livestream.com/frenchembassy.

Festival Albertine is made possible with major support from The Recanati-Kaplan Foundation, Susannah Hunnewell, Air France, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Institut français. Generous support is provided by Michele and Timothy Barakett, Cheryl and Blair Effron, and Champagne Pommery.

Special thanks to The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

speaking about it: the plot and content and ending would kind of ruin all the reveals and levels

but basically reading I went from: this is dope. this is hella funny. hmmm ok. uhhh where is this going. ok i'm almost done. holy shit this was brilliant.

Adichie writes wonderful lines, the character and the content annoyed me to no end though

and yes, for the record, I'm ashamed that I am only reading these great books now.

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All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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Every hundred years, all new people

I've read it 2.5 times, but the last time was nearly a decade ago. I think it deserves all the love it gets, and wonder why he only wrote one more novel after it

holy shit it is read SO WELL.

Joe Morton reads it, and I see that he and CCH Pounder have read the three volume "America in the King Years" by Taylor Branch. I haven't listened to anything she's read, but I'm a big fan of her acting work. I figure I'll be listening to these soon.

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

to get all of the social and political commentary

The writing is obviously brilliant, but to be honest, I found A Fine Balance to be more informative and compelling

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

|\_/|
='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

Started with Elegy of Hillbilly. Then trump one so I've just been reading trashy shit. Probably the best of those was the Mr. Robot journal but I don't think it I could call itgood (base entertainment).

Started Forever Watch by David Ramirez this week though and from the jump kinda into it. Really wanted to read his newer one The Black Disc, but I'm not sure what happened on publication date other than it didn't.


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Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

Short and expansive

You could read it in a day or over a weekend

The Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau (got this as a gift this past x-man from a member of another board)
The Will to Change - Bell Hooks

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If life is stupendous one cannot also demand that it should be easy. - Robert Musil

got me weebay.gifing with every page

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If life is stupendous one cannot also demand that it should be easy. - Robert Musil