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Very very thankful for my sliver of garden today. A gentle breeze, an excellent novel, and the many many bugs making the world work.
Shout out to Burning Books in Buffalo for my favourite tote and @nobonzo for the beautiful sticker on my waterbottle.
#gardening #reading #DionneBrand #Garden #Buffalo #NiagaraON #STC
Moin mit ...
prologue for now - #Gaza
by #DionneBrand
https://jewishcurrents.org/prologue-for-now-gaza
#SpokenWord to be found on Lamin Fofana New York, 15.05.24
https://www.nts.live/shows/lamin-fofana/episodes/lamin-fofana-15th-may-2024
"You cannot be an #artist if you don't have one foot on the ground and the other outside the planet." —Jacques Coursil via #ChristinaSharpe in the intro to #DionneBrand's #Nomenclature
Un roman complexe qui suit le parcours d'un·e protagoniste, de l'écriture de sa thèse qui ne finit jamais et de ses trois amantes qui ont partagé sa vie et sur lesquelles notre protagoniste a certainement plusieurs théories. C'est un drôle de mélange que ce récit à la première personne (et à la narration dont on ne peut pas trop se fier) qui mélange des sortes de propositions intellectuelles parfois peut-être brillantes, parfois possiblement douteuses,
I've never met anyone that has the same taste in books as me, so let me know if you're a kindred spirit! #bookstodon
Top authors: #AnneCarson, #AzareenVanDerVlietOloomi, #DenisJohnson, #ReneeGladman, #MarciaDouglas, #RodrigoFresán, #DionneBrand, #MarkZDanielewski, #HalldórLaxness, #BenLerner
Top books: M. Douglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread; H. Hesse, Glass Bead Game; I. Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler; D. Brand, The Blue Clerk; N. Gaiman, American Gods
Redoing this with new character limit! Partial taglist of important-to-me #theorists, #TheoristActivists, #PublicThinkers, #Philosophers (there is an emphasis here on #theory to #praxis synergy):
#SaraAhmed #MonicaRMiller #AnthonyBPinn #ImaniPerry #JasbirKPuar #AchilleMbembe #JacquesDerrida #GayatryChakravortySpivak #ChristinaSharpe #ZakkiyahImaniJackson #KatherineMcKittrick #SylviaWynter #HortenseSpillers #TiffanyLethaboKing #JenniferCNash #AlexanderWeheliye #DionneBrand #HeatherPool #KateManne #JudithButler #TrishaRose #SaidiyaHartman #DonnaHaraway #bellhooks #PhilipDeloria #DeniseFerreiraDaSilva #AndreaSmith #AudraSimpson #JuliaSerano #MichelleAlexander #AudreLorde #KeeangaYahmattaTaylor #ToniMorrison #AliSmith (modern fiction writer, but I swear the most Derridean thinker I've run across) #MelissaHarrisPerry #SikivuHutchinson #AngelaDavis #ChristopherMDriscoll #ArenZAzura #MartinHaagland
@DXMacGuffin Ooo! Okay, top 5 of last 5 years:
#MarciaDouglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
#ItaloCalvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
#ReneeGladman, Ravicka series (this is 4 books, but they're all super short)
#AzareenVanDerVlietOloomi, Call Me Zebra
#DionneBrand, The Blue Clerk
"This city hovers above the forty-third parallel; that's illusory of course."
first sentence of "What we all long for" by #DionneBrand on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-67697-693-9-first-sentence.php
"She longed to hear Tuyen chipping and chiselling away next door."
last sentence of "What we all long for" by #DionneBrand on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-67697-693-9-last-sentence.php
""You can really disappear, can't you?""
middle sentence of "What we all long for" by #DionneBrand on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-67697-693-9-middle-sentence.php