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recced by ecrituria "Nature writing is a relatively new genre to me—I’m teaching several texts that would be considered “nature writing” this semester, but there’s obviously much I haven’t read. I’m considering “nature writing” here to be a relatively broad category, texts where the land or nature is integral to the world being depicted."

Traditional nature writing:

  • My First Summer in the Sierra , John Muir
  • Walden , Thoreau (it’s a classic but also probably the exact type of book you find lacking)

Contemporary nature writing (nonfiction):

  • Horizon , Barry Lopez
  • Landmarks , Robert Macfarlane (or anything by him, really)
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , Annie Dillard
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  • The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Wilhelm Reich (oldie but goodie)
  • On Protracted War (1938), Mao Zedong
  • Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity , Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
  • The Shock of Recognition (2002), J. Sakai (Part of Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement)
  • Blood in the Face (1995), James Ridgeway
  • The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971), Red Army Faction
  • Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism (2008), Ingrid Strobl
  • Blood and Politics (2009), Leonard Zeskind
  • Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years o... (2015), M. Testa
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  • The Princess Bride , William Goldman
  • And Our Faces, My Heart , Brief as Photos, John Berger
  • A Lover’s Discourse , Roland Barthes
  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers , Xialou Guo
  • The Book of Delights , Ross Gay
  • A History of Love , Nicole Krauss
  • The Carpenter’s Pencil , Manuel Rivas
  • All About Love , bell hooks
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini
  • All We Saw , Anne Michaels

@soracities: do you have any meaningful and real book recs? i love everything that is human and real even if it’s sad.

  • All We Saw , Anne Michaels
  • The History of Love , Nicole Krauss
  • A Tale for the Time Being , Ruth Ozeki
  • The Book of Delights , Ross Gay
  • Long Life: Essays and Other Writings , Mary Oliver
  • Song of the Exile , Kiana Davenport
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jun 16 2021 ∞
jun 17 2021 +

in honour of lithub making a list of ‘best 50 novels under 200 pages’ with a pathetic showing for women of colour… here’s a list excluding whites and men:

  • adania shibli, touch
  • shahrnush parsipur, women without men
  • fae myenne ng, bone
  • gwendolyn brooks, maud martha
  • theresa hak kyung cha, dictee
  • nawal el saadawi, woman at point zero
  • jamaica kincaid, a small place, lucy, annie john, my brother
  • mariama ba, so long a letter
  • maryse conde, i tituba, black witch of salem
  • kopano matlwa, coconut, evening primrose
  • suzette mayr, dr edith vane and the hares of crawley hall
  • tanya tagaq, split tooth
  • michelle cliff, no telephone to heaven, abeng
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  • Saving Beauty , Byung-Chul Han
  • The English Patient , Michael Ondaatje
  • Darkness, A Cultural History , Nina Edwards
  • Landscapes of Fear , Yi-Fu Tuan
  • Strangers, Gods, and Monsters , Richard Kearney
  • The Spectral Arctic , Shane McCorristine
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • All About Love , Bell Hooks
  • Feel Free: Essays , Zadie Smith
  • Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism , John Patrick Leary
  • A People's History of the World , Chris Harman
  • It’s Time to Move , Remi Kanazi
  • At the Border of Decolonization , Andrew Herscher and Ana Maria Leon
  • Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide , Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson
  • A River Dies of Thirst , Mahmoud Darwish
  • Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium , Carl Sagan
  • The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays , Albert Camus
  • Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett , ed. James Knowlson
  • Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking , David Bayles
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nov 25 2021 +
  • Policing the Markets: Inside the Black Box of Securities Enforcement , James W. Williams
  • Further Resources, a book list
jun 8 2021 ∞
jun 8 2021 +
  • The Idea of the Brain , Matthew Cobb
  • Rage Becomes Her , Soraya Chemaly
jun 6 2021 ∞
jun 14 2021 +

What female writers have inspired and influenced you? Sofía Guerrero

Oh, so many. Of course, I have read Jane Austen in the past but long ago. I don’t know if I’m inspired by her, but I’m maybe interested in her. There’s Toni Morrison, whose Beloved was a great inspiration. The memoir of [Russian poet] Osip Mandelstam’s widow, Nadezhda Mandelstam [Hope Against Hope] – oh God, what a book, just incredible. And recently I read this book called Barracoon, it’s just come out. Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologist and she transcribed a first-person account of the last slave, who was captured 50 years after slavery was abolished. He has a memory of the whole thing, of how he was kidnapped from his village in Africa – not kidnapped by white people, but by another tribe – and then sold into slavery to American slave traders. So it complicates the way you think abo...

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nov 22 2021 +

Memoir / Autobiography / Character study:

  • People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her , Richard Lloyd Parry
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” , Zora Neale Hurston
  • Heavy: An American Memoir , Kiese Laymon
  • Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder , Caroline Fraser
  • The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer , Anne-Marie O'Connor
  • The Descent of Man , Grayson Perry
  • All The Truth is Out , Matt Bai
  • The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster , Sarah Krasnostein
  • The Cost of Living , Deborah Levy
  • The Secret History of Wonder Woman , Jill Lepore
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recced by salemwitchtrials.

  • Devotions , Mary Oliver
  • Written on the Body , Jeanette Winterson
  • Complete_, e.e. cummings poetry
  • Having a coke with you , Frank O'Hara
  • Love Poems , Anne Sexton (pg200)
  • A Little Larger than the Entire Universe , Fernando Pessoa
  • Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Agua Viva (the stream of life) , Clarice Lispector
  • The Year of Magical Thinking , Joan Didion
  • Mossbawn Sunlight , Seamus Heaney
  • Letters to Milena , Franz Kafka
  • Haruko: Love Poems , June Jordan

Other:

jun 19 2021 ∞
jun 19 2021 +

Recced by @possiblygandalf: Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

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books:

  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism , Shoshanna Zuboff
  • The Burnout Society , Byung-Chul Han
  • Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic , Seb Franklin
  • Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness , Simone Browne
  • The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas , Roberto Simanowski
  • The End of Forgetting: Growing Up With Social Media , Kate Eichhorn
  • In the Swarm: Digital Politics , Byung-Chul Han
  • The Transparency Society , Byung-Chul Han
  • Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and i2p , Robert Gehl
  • the politics of dating apps: gender, sex..., lik sam chan

articles:

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Books that introduce inner workings of brain/but not too technical:

  • Incognito: The secret lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
  • The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
  • The Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield
  • The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
  • Tips on learning neuroanatomy

‘Classic’ textbooks that appeared on all my course lists

  • Principles of Neural Science, Kandel et al.
  • Neuroscience, Purves et al.
  • Principles of Neurobiology, Linquin Luo
  • Fundamental Neuroscience, Squire et al.
  • Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases, Hal Blumenfeld

Clinical neuroscience specific textbooks

  • Clinical Neuroscience, Paul Johns
  • Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook (I dec...
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jun 7 2021 +
  • The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program: The Complete Combat System
  • 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
  • USMC Combat Conditioning: Marine Corps Martial Arts Program Exercise Book
  • The Official US Army Combatives Handbook - Current, Full-Size Edition: Battle-Tested Hand-to-Hand Combat - the Modern Army Combatives Program
  • Footwork Wins Fights: The Footwork of Boxing, Kickboxing, Martial Arts & MMA
  • Secret Agent Handbook: The Top Secret Manual of Wartime Weapons, Gadgets, Disguises and Devices
  • Soe: The Scientific Secrets
  • SOE Manual: How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe
  • The British Spy Manual: The Authentic Special Operations Executive (SOE) Guide for...
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"I thought it might be helpful to share a list of art history and criticism books for those who are interested in the subject and don’t know where to start. I’ve read as many books as I could on the subject of Western art these last few years (in and outside of school) and the following include the books that I’ve enjoyed and learned from the most (and find myself frequently recommending):"

  • Ways of Seeing , John Berger
  • Portraits: On Artists , John Berger
  • The Story of Art , E.H. Gombrich
  • Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1980-1940 , George Heard Hamilton
  • The Philosophy of Modern Art , Herbert Read
  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art , Wassily Kandinsky
  • Lives of Artists (Volumes I & II) , Giorgio Vasari
  • Against Interpretation & Other Essays , Susan Sontag
  • Art as Therapy , Alain de Botton
  • History of Beauty , Umberto Eco
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jun 19 2021 +

from an ask: "Hi Kharla! I was just wondering maybe you could help me. This pandemic was really an eye-opener that I suddenly became eager to know more about our country and to actually dig deep in its history rather than staying on the surface-level of things. However, I don't know how or where to start. Maybe you could give me some tips on what resources or books I can start with? Thank you! :)" / "here are some historical fiction novels that have helped me understand war and violence, our sense of postcoloniality, and what not. not all of these are filipino works, mainly because to understand one’s history is to understand the fiction and nonfiction histories of countries who have been colonized the same way, i tend to move towards work written by ‘minority writers’ that is, asian, latin american, and african-american."

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Ah loneliness, the winter companion, sister to solitude. While for the latter, aloneness is a comfort; for the former, it is an aching gap. This distinction is not always clear in the literature, first and foremost because individuals tend to fear solitude so very much, convinced wholeheartedly that it is a sign of defect. But taking pleasure in solitude is a tremendous feat of mental fortitude and character, realised best by Thoreau. There are of course many, many others that I’ve no doubt forgotten, but as the winter approaches (soon, soon!), settle in for the long sleep with any of the following:

  • The Outsider , Albert Camus
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto , Anneli Rufus
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter , Carson McCullers
  • Wittgenstein’s Mistress , David Markson
  • Notes from Underground , Fyodor Dostoevsky
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jun 13 2021 ∞
jun 13 2021 +
  • The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komach and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan , tr. Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani (reread)
  • Chroma , Derek Jarman
  • Goodbye Tsugumi , Banana Yoshimoto
  • The Night Tiger , Yangsze Choo
  • Crossing the Mangrove , Maryse Conde
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