#pocwriters — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh, but poetry! Right now I’m reading some incredible poetry
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A smart, wide-ranging collection of works by Black women on why veganism is a social justice imperative. There’s so much wisdom in here.
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For a long time I was an English professor. In that profession, you’re taught to look down on certain genres so I’m only now discovering fantasy, and, wow, fantasy & speculative fiction by women & queer people of color is mind-blowing! Rivers Solomon & N. K. Jemisin are deservedly well known (check out An Unkindness of Ghosts & The Fifth Season!), but do you know this book?
The writing is strong (some rough spots, but some beautiful moments, too), the characters are so real, the world-building so rich, that I was enthralled immediately & remained so throughout. I can’t recommend this wonderful, complicated, beautiful trilogy-in-process highly enough. And the leads are queer women! What can be better?
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This brilliant, gorgeous book is a retelling of The Great Gatsby from the p-o-v of Jordan Baker, a secondary character in the book. The original Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, so Vo gives us a woman’s take & she makes Jordan Asian, so we get a POC take, as well. And there’s magic.
I wrote my dissertation on the work of Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald & I’ve read & taught Gatsby many times, so this book is like the richest of chocolate cakes for me. If you don’t know Gatsby well, you might want to read it first to fully appreciate Vo’s genius.
I’m only 60 pages in but I had to post about it. I want to tell everyone how freaking amazing this book is!
#books #Bookstodon #POCWriters #WomenWriters #BooksOfMastodon
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From Kate Brauning on the bird app:
IP book contract opportunity for Black American authors—under your name, advance + royalties. If you can do voicey, grounded MG feminist fantasy, send me your bio & 10 pages as a writing sample by EOD Monday: [email protected]
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