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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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David France
S Holladay
, April 03, 2017
This book is AMAZING! Super comprehensive chronicle of the AIDS crisis, providing a much needed chapter on American history and New York history for that matter. I didn't realize how much of an epicenter NYC was during the beginning of the AIDS crisis. The author was there and tells this story with lots of research and compassion for those who first contracted the virus and the ways that homophobia kept the U.S. and NYC governments from responding quickly to the outbreak.
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Two Way Mirror A Poetry Notebook
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David Meltzer
S Holladay
, April 24, 2015
I just saw David Meltzer read last night with his wife Julie Rogers and they blew my mind and my heart wide open. This book is a tender text full of quotes, anecdotes, graceful instruction, questions, and art from phonics books from the mid-century. A must-read for any writing teacher, writing student, or reader. So everybody that is reading this write now. Viva Meltzer!
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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Claudia Rankine
S Holladay
, March 21, 2015
I read this book in one sitting. Not because it was easy to read, but because it was that compelling. Ms. Rankine's book is timely, showing many covert and overt racist experiences she as a Black woman experiences on a daily basis. Much of the book describes her daily experiences, but she uses "you" instead of "I" to illustrate them, causing the reader to be in her shoes, at least momentarily. If you like this book, read another one by her, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely". I'm happy she's getting the positive praise she deserves.
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Nochita
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Dia Felix
S Holladay
, January 26, 2015
This is my favorite novel of the last year. It took me a minute to get into it, but once I did I wanted Nochita to take me with her for the rest of our lives. Anybody who grew up on the West Coast in any subculture will likely enjoy this book. Sit in the dark with it and let its words restructure your way of seeing the world.
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Bone Black Memories Of Girlhood
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bell hooks
S Holladay
, November 16, 2014
This is my all-time favorite memoir. bell hooks flawlessly embodies child's voice in the telling of her girlhood. hooks is a genius because she is able to infuse this text with sophisticated, nuanced social commentary she's so known for, all the while staying in the perspective of a young girl.
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Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
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Alexandra Fuller
S Holladay
, November 14, 2014
I'm a sucker for children's voice memoirs such as bone black by bell hooks and This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff. Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood is right up there too. She pitch perfectly describes a childhood living with flamboyant parents, and goes into even more detail about her alcoholic mother in her next memoir, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. Fuller also describes the different countries in Africa she lived in simultaneously from the disadvantaged position of a child and privileged position as a white British person. This would make a great gift to a mom or a sister.
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A Family of Strangers
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Tall, Deborah
S Holladay
, November 13, 2014
This memoir, by Deborah Tall, the originator of the lyric essay, is one I keep coming back to and giving to people. She writes from a place of not knowing, filling in gaps where she has no information, because of diaspora or her father's secrecy. This is a great book for anyone dealing with loss and putting the pieces back together.
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Dictee
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
S Holladay
, November 09, 2014
I've been told about this book for some years and hadn't read it yet until now. It's so beautiful with many narratives side by side and inside each other and text borrowed from many women throughout history: Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon. This book is so experimental and it was written in the early 1980's! The author uses film theory and film and photographic craft in the writing of the book. While she died in 1982 at the age of 31, It's obvious Theresa Hak Kyung Cha has influenced thousands of writers.
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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
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Eileen Myles
S Holladay
, November 07, 2014
Don't get me wrong, I wanted to go to Iceland before I read this book, but NOW I REALLY WANT TO GO TO ICELAND. Myles' the poet's prose is verbal as all get out and her essays read like she's right there speaking to you. A good companion to Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack, and Honey.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan
S Holladay
, November 06, 2014
Have you seriously not read this book yet? I don't read a lot of fiction, but this one sucked me in and I finished it in two days and then told everyone I know about it. The Sundance Channel is supposedly turning this book into a show; read the book before the show comes out!
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How Poetry Saved My Life A Hustlers Memoir
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Amber Dawn
S Holladay
, November 05, 2014
This is a beautiful book of hybrid poetry and creative nonfiction that charts a journey from surviving to healing to living the life of your wildest desires. The author speaks gracefully and boldly about her external environment and internal landscape, adding a complex collection to the memoir genre while penning a nuanced call to action. One of her pieces, "How to Bury Our Dead", speaks to the meaningfulness of queer relationships and how we deserve to honor them as much as anything: "Make two lists, one of queers you know who have died, and a second of queer funerals you've attended. How do your lists compare? My first list is a whole lot longer than the second. What I've learned about queer funerals is--they don't exist. In the worst-case scenario, we are forced back into the closet at our funerals. At best, our deaths become political platforms for public education and human rights lobbying. They become measures of the work that still needs to be done in this world."
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Madness Rack & Honey
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Mary Ruefle
S Holladay
, November 04, 2014
I love non-fiction written by poets. This book is a collection of essays, written by the poet Mary Ruefle to be read by the lecturer Mary Ruefle. I bought this book at the same time that I had the chance to hear Mary Ruefle read and so I hear her reading the lectures when I read them. It's like she's there standing at a tiny podium in the crease of the book. If you're looking for a muse, this author will help you find one. Check her out.
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The Convalescent
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Anthony, Jessica
S Holladay
, November 03, 2014
This is the book of the last couple years that haunts me. I've managed to have de ja vu involving this book every week since I read it a few years ago. I just bought it to read it again. If you are into fiction that has doses of magical realism, read this book!
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Hoopla The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
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Leanne Prain, Jeff Christenson
S Holladay
, November 02, 2014
Embroidery has become really trendy lately and there are a ton of embroidery books out there. As someone who has embroidered for a long time, I don't need to books to teach me technique, but I enjoy looking at other artist's work. This book, Hoopla is a huge, 300+ page book that does just that and is full of photographs and interviews of embroiderers from around Canada, Europe, and the U.S. There are sections with how-to's that I am curious if anyone has tried, but most exciting to me are the interviews with different artists showcasing and talking about their work.
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Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family
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Joy Castro
S Holladay
, November 02, 2014
If you are writing a memoir or nonfiction essays about your life and experiencing writing block, this book should help. I had the privilege to be in the audience during its launch. Part of what's great about it is the wide range of voices chiming in on the topic. The authors have plenty of advice on writing about family after they've walked through the fire themselves, grappling with such important questions as: "How does a writer determine whether her work is sufficiently well-executed that family members shouldn't feel abused by recognizing their lives in it?"-Lopez, page 186.
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Practical Paleo A Customized Approach to Health & a Whole Foods Lifestyle
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Diane Sanfilippo
S Holladay
, October 30, 2014
What I love about this book is that the first half is a medicinal health book on how to use food to heal your body. The last half is paleo recipes, some of which are too simple for me, like how to bake bacon, but others are fantastic such as the blueberry muffins and the stuffed cabbage with tomato and cranberry sauce. If you're looking for a basic paleo cookbook to learn more about how going paleo can help with such health concerns as improving digestion, preventing cancer, and curing diabetes, look no further!
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You Are Not a Gadget a Manifesto
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Jaron Lanier
S Holladay
, October 29, 2014
THIS BOOK IS CHANGING MY LIFE. I quit facebook last Spring and have felt isolated in this strange way because my community is still on the site. Now Jaron Lanier is my friend and I am obsessed. After reading this book, I am no longer using wikipedia either. Lanier talks about how wikipedia has turned all "answers" from the internet into a uniform voice, decreasing diversity of responses and diversity in language use period. That if we just scroll down our search results, we can find a variety of voices from experts to answer our questions. I think this book pairs nicely with Samuel Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, where Delany proposes that gentrification is destroying our social fiber and our face-to-face social networks. This book was published in 1999, so it's interesting to see where Lanier takes us in 2011.
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