My friend just started reading this autobiography by the great Shirley Chisholm. Now it‘s on my list.
Brooklyn‘s own, daughter of Caribbean immigrants, she became America's first African-American Congresswoman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm
Finished a few months ago. Another brilliant and unique memoir from Maggie Nelson. Read her, if you haven‘t to this point. #LiteraryNonfiction #autobiographical #memoirs
Love this weird Penguin paperback edition of Borges‘ BOOK OF SAND
I was somehow able to enjoy this as a kind of absurd soap opera, a dark fantasy. Some of it was indeed quite fascinating. And I will give Wolff real credit on this point: Many of his “burns” on these malevolent buffoons are entertainingly, even eloquently, phrased. Worth a read for those predisposed.
Currently reading Maggie Nelson‘s incredible memoir, THE RED PARTS. #truecrime #autobiography #memoir #literarynonfiction
The first of his books that I owned. It's long since fallen apart. #SamShepard
Love this cover; good book too.
Axworthy is an experienced British journalist and writes in a lucid, accessible style.
Re-reading.... TENDER IS THE NIGHT #AmericanLiterature
Happy Pride Day, everyone! (Inspired by myfairmomo)
Dip into Andrew Lang's Fairy Book series if you haven't already. Still in print in paperback from the good people at Dover. #Pride2017 #FairyTales
"A ribald, uproarious epic of modern Moscow"
Sale table find.... Love that title, author, and price.
#NYUbookstore
Agnes Martin's amazing minimalist artwork was recently the subject of a big retrospective at the Guggenheim in NYC. The show closed this past week. The link above is to a Martin biography, for those interested in her life and work.
*The image I uploaded is her '60s painting NIGHT SEA.
The linked collection includes one of Freud's finest and most resonant essays, "Mourning and Melancholia."
Sadly, the great pessimist's words in this book -- many of the pieces written during a period of widespread international violence and uncertainty -- speak to our tenuous situation today.
Highly recommended. Freud was a superb writer, on top of everything else.
Considered one of the great science-fiction novels of the 1950s.
Simone de Beauvoir on Bardot and Lolitas.
New translation of a hard-to-find book. "Pasolini's THE STREET KIDS was heavily censored, criticized by professional critics, & lambasted by much of the general public upon its publication. But like many innovative works of art its undeniable force eventually led to it being universally acknowledged as a masterpiece. It is a moving tribute to an entire class of people in danger of being forgotten by art, by institutions, and by society at large."
Facsimile of the 1955 edition of this comic series, discovered in my neighborhood Barnes & Noble store. Apparently, recommended by some as a Spanish-language study supplement for relative beginners. The pictures help! And it includes lots of colloquialisms (they may be out-of-date by now, though). ;)
I taught this book in a college-prep class in New York City a number of years back. The students were mostly Caribbean immigrants with limited academic backgrounds. While they struggled with the language, they connected deeply with the story and themes. We had some incredible class discussions.
Paperback cover art for Thomas Pynchon's THE CRYING OF LOT 49.
"'A Mystery by Norman Mailer.' Screenplay complete, with stills, descriptions of the filming, and a major essay on film making by the author-director-star of the revolutionary movie. Signet trade paperback, October 1971."
"People are always ruining things for you." --Holden Caulfield, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
Another favorite of mine from way back. "This is often considered the most exciting of all Jim Corbett's jungle tales. It's a carefully-detailed account of a notorious leopard that terrorized life in the hills of the colonial United Provinces."
'"But I don‘t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can‘t help that," said the Cat: "We‘re all mad here."' ? #Election2016 #USA!
Brief but fascinating look at Marilyn Monroe's unconventional treatment by eminent Hollywood psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson. His efforts to help MM find love and acceptance ultimately failed, ending with her suicide. Greenson never got over losing her.
“It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don‘t know how to live, that you will never know.”
— Georges Perec, A MAN ASLEEP
A personal favorite; this is the edition I read & loved many years ago -- fictionalized stories about real historical criminals. "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan" & "Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities" partially inspired a short film I made.
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist
"A compilation of abridged versions of M. Sasek‘s most popular children‘s travel books."
*Pic taken at THE POWERHOUSE ARENA -- gallery, book store, performance, & event space -- in DUMBO, Brooklyn. May it rest in peace....
