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el-im · 2 years

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2022

key ↻ = re-read ☞ = continuing (started previously) ✑ = for school ➢ = reading to ellum ✏︎ = from the library ☏ = others recommended and/or gifted to me

- measuring eternity: the search for the beginning of time by martin gorst - the holy bible (the revised standard version) - stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach - the primeval atom: an essay on cosmogony by canon georges lemaître, trans. betty h. and serge a. koroff - ✑ the land ethic by aldo leopold - cyrano de bergerac by edmond rostand, trans. gladys thomas and mary f. guillemard - ↻ cyrano de bergerac by edmond rostand, trans. brian hooker - quantum leap: the novel by ashley mcconnell - deadeye dick by kurt vonnegut - the bean trees by barbara kingsolver - colossus by d. f. jones - war with the newts by karel čapek - ☏ animal dreams by barbara kingsolver - voices from chernobyl by svetlana alexievich, trans. keith gessen - love like water, love like fire by mikhail iossel - cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world by mark kurlansky - the lathe of heaven by ursula k. le guin - ☞ special topics in calamity physics by marisha pessl - winter count by barry holstun lopez - galápagos by kurt vonnegut - the house of the seven gables by nathaniel hawthorne - the year of magical thinking by joan didion - ✑ modern architecture since 1900 by william j. r. curtis - ✑ introduction to recreation services: sustainability for a changing world by karla a. henderson - ☏ the member of the wedding by carson mccullers - giovanni's room by james baldwin - the autobiography of f.b.i. special agent dale cooper: my life, my tapes by scott frost - the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes - too close for comfort by ashley mcconnell - isaac newton by james gleick - the myth of sisyphus by albert camus - the cosmic connection: an extraterrestrial perspective by carl sagan - starfleet academy by mike johnson and ryan parrott - time, love, memory: a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior by jonathan weiner - alaska bear tales by larry kaniut - the glass menagerie by tennessee williams - ☞ waiting for godot by samuel beckett - ☏ the tin drum by günter wilhelms grass - ☞ nine stories by j. d. salinger - from both sides now: the poetry of the vietnam war and its aftermath, edited by phillip mahony - brave new world by aldous huxley - ➢ stuart little by e. b. white - ➢ the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe by c. s. lewis - uncle tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood by oliver sacks - hope: entertainer of the century by richard zoglin - my brief history by stephen hawking - ☞ solar perplexus by dean young - the omnivore's dilemma by michael pollan - ☞ log three by alan dean foster - the last thing he wanted by joan didion - still foolin’ em’ by billy crystal - kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly by anthony bourdain - broken bow by diane carey - ☞ for the relief of unbearable urges by nathan englander - star trek: the motion picture: a novel by gene roddenberry - my incredibly wonderful, miserable life by adam nimoy - i am not spock by leonard nimoy - gentleman: the william powell story by charles francisco - myrna loy: being and becoming by myrna loy and james kotsilibas-davis - joy of cooking (6th edition, december 1986) by irma s. rombauer and marion rombauer - pulitzer: a life in politics, print, and power by james mcgrath morris - the sea by john banville - the all-new, all-purpose joy of cooking (7th edition, january 1997) by irma s. rombauer, marion rombauer, and ethan becker - ✏︎ the anatomist: a true story of gray’s anatomy by bill hayes - ✏︎ natural history by carlos fonseca, trans. megan mcdowell - ✏︎ the lamb's war by jan de hartog - ✑ evolution (second edition) by carl t. bergstrom and lee alan dugatkin - ✑ your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body by neil shubin - ✑ interactive general chemistry by jessica white, brian anderson, brandon green, and mildred hall - ✑ ecology (eighth edition) by manuel c. molles jr. and anna sher simon - ✏︎ the sirens of mars: searching for life on another world by sarah stewart johnson - ↻ the man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales by oliver sacks - letters to véra by vladimir nabokov, trans. olga voronina and brian boyd - ✏︎ the history of tom jones: a foundling by henry fielding, illustrated by t. m. cleland - cactus hotel by brenda z. guiberson, illustrated by megan lloyd - ✏︎ tinkers by paul harding - ✏︎ the life and death of peter sellers by roger lewis - ✏︎ swamplands: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat by edward struzik - ✏︎ far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy - a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson - the swamp: the everglades, florida, and the politics of paradise by michael grunwald - life signs: the biology of star trek by susan and robert jenkins - ✏︎ dinner with dimaggio: memories of an american hero by dr. rock positano and john positano - ☏ displacement by kiku hughes - reverence for life: an anthology of selected writings by albert schweitzer, edited by thomas kiernan - dean & me: a love story by jerry lewis and james kaplan - steps in time: an autobiography by fred astaire - seven brief lessons on physics by carlo rovelli, trans. simon carnell and erica segre - behaving as if the god in all life mattered: a new age ecology by machaelle small wright - ✏︎ leonard cohen: the mystical roots of genius by harry freedman - ✏︎ baggage: tales from a fully packed life by alan cumming - ✏︎ paul simon: the life by robert hilburn - ☞ masters of sex: the life and times of william masters and virginia johnson, the couple who taught america how to love by thomas maier - ✏︎ the flame: poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by leonard cohen, edited by robert faggen and alexandra pleshoyano - ✏︎ book of longing by leonard cohen - ✏︎ stranger music: selected poems and songs by leonard cohen - ☏ the beginning place by ursula k. le guin - selected poems by octavio paz, trans. g. aroul, elizabeth bishop, paul blackburn, lysander kemp, denise levertov, muriel rukeyser, mark strand, charles tomlinson, william carlos williams, monique fong wust, and the editor (eliot weinberger) - averno by louise glück - dance for two: selected essays by alan lightman - ✏︎ dostoevsky: a writer in his time by joseph frank - from sawdust to stardust: the biography of deforest kelley, star trek's dr. mccoy by terry lee rioux - ☏ the dead romantics by ashley poston - ✑ experimental writing: a guide and anthology by will cordiero and lawrence lenhart - ☏ lessons in chemistry: a novel by bonnie garmus - ✏︎ eels: an exploration, from new zealand to the sargasso, of the world’s most mysterious fish by james prosek

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ofallingstar · 3 years

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List of books I read this year

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Morirás Lejos by José Emilio Pacheco

Devotions by Mary Oliver

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien

New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W. B. Yeats

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Dark by John McGahern

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Une sirène à Paris by Mathias Malzieu

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings

No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo: Poemas 1964-1968 by José Emilio Pacheco

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Beloved by Toni Morrison

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats

The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

Breath, Eyes, Memory of Edwidge Danticat

Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Adonis by Adonis

If Not, Winter by Sappho

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-García

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Iliad by Homer

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Odyssey by Homer

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin

Arráncame la vida by Ángeles Mastretta

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Shining by Stephen King

The Complete Poems by John Keats

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

La ciudad de vapor by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Selected Poems: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood

Selected Poems II: 1976-1986 by Margaret Atwood

Dearly: New Poems by Margaret Atwood

Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Poems: 1962-2012 by Louise Glück

Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde

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stacymorrisau · 7 years

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your tongue stretches out of your mouth his eyebrows furrow at the sight. as it rolls back and begins to form the words he doesn't want to hear he pushes his index finger so hard against your lips that your teeth pierce through them. he sees that this looks too much like violence so he quickly kisses you acts as if it is romantic to silence you.

- stacy morris

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blackkudos · 4 years

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Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux (born March 24, 1975) is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, singer/ songwriter. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize-winning "Pagan Operetta," the novel, Asphalt, and the Obie Award-winning play, Talk. Rux is also a singer/songwriter with four CDs to his credit, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of dance, theater, film, and contemporary art . Notable collaborators include Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, Nick Cave, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Kenny Leon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Nelson Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Doris Duke Award for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Prize, the Bessie Award and the Alpert Award in the Arts, and a 2019 Global Change Maker award by WeMakeChange.Org. . His archives are housed at the Billy Rose Theater Division of the New York Public Library, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution as well as the Film and Video/Theater and Dance Library of the California Institute of the Arts.

Early life

Rux was born Carl Stephen Hancock in Harlem, New York. His biological mother, Carol Jean Hancock, suffered from chronic mental illness, was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, and was institutionalized shortly after the birth of his older brother. Rux was born the result of an illegitimate pregnancy (while his mother was under the care of a New York City psychiatric institution) and the identity of Rux's biological father is unknown. Rux was placed under the guardianship of his maternal grandmother, Geneva Hancock (née Rux), until her death of cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism. At four years of age he entered the New York City foster care system where he remained until he was eventually placed under the legal guardianship of his great uncle (grandmother's brother) James Henry Rux and his wife Arsula (née Cottrell) and raised on a step street in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, later used as the filming location for the stairway dance scene in the 2019 film Joker.

Rux attended PS 73, Roberto Clemente Junior High School and received a scholarship to the Horace Mann School, an independent Ivy college preparatory school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx before transferring to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts where he studied visual art. Exposed to jazz music by his legal guardians, including the work of Oscar Brown Jr., John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, Rux eventually double-majored in music/voice, and sang with the Boys Choir of Harlem. He also became a member of the Harlem Writers Workshop, a summer journalism training program for inner-city youth founded by African-American journalists, sponsored by Columbia University and The Xerox Corporation. At the age of 15, Rux was legally adopted by his guardians and his surname changed to Rux. Upon graduation from high school he entered Columbia College where he studied in the Creative Writing Program; took private acting classes at both HB studios; and trained with Gertrude Jeanette's Hadley Players as well as actor Robert Earl Jones (father of actor James Earl Jones). Rux continued his studies at Columbia University, American University of Paris, as well as the University of Ghana at Legon.

Career

Working as a Social Work Trainer while moonlighting as a freelance art and music critic, Rux became a founding member of Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship gospel choir and later found himself influenced by the Lower East Side poetry and experimental theater scene, collaborating with poets Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman, Jayne Cortez, Sekou Sundiata, Ntozake Shange; experimental musicians David Murray, Mal Waldron, Butch Morris, Craig Harris, Jeanne Lee, Leroy Jenkins as well as experimental theater artists Laurie Carlos, Robbie McCauley, Ruth Maleczech, Lee Breuer, Reza Abdoh and others.

He is one of several poets (including Paul Beatty, Tracie Morris, Dael Orlandersmith, Willie Perdomo, Kevin Powell, Maggie Estep, Reg E. Gaines, Edwin Torres and Saul Williams) to emerge from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, most of whom were included in the poetry anthology Aloud, Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, winner of the 1994 American Book Award. His first book of poetry, Pagan Operetta, received the Village Voice Literary prize and was featured on the weekly's cover story: "Eight Writers on the Verge of (Impacting) the Literary Landscape". Rux is the author of the novel Asphalt and the author of several plays. His first play, Song of Sad Young Men (written in response to his older brother's death from AIDS), was directed by Trazana Beverly and starred actor Isaiah Washington. The play received eleven AUDELCO nominations. His most notable play is the OBIE Award-winning Talk, first produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in 2002. Directed by Marion McClinton and starring actor Anthony Mackie, the play won seven OBIE awards.

Rux is also a recording artist, first featured on Reg E. Gaines CD Sweeper Don't Clean My Streets (Polygram). As a musician, his work is known to encompass an eclectic mixture of blues, rock, vintage R&B, classical music, futuristic pop, soul, poetry, folk, psychedelic music and jazz. His debut CD, Cornbread, Cognac & Collard Green Revolution (unreleased) was produced by Nona Hendryx and Mark Batson, featuring musicians Craig Harris, Ronnie Drayton and Lonnie Plaxico. His CD Rux Revue was recorded and produced in Los Angeles by the Dust Brothers, Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf. Rux recorded a follow up album, Apothecary Rx, (selected by French writer Phillippe Robert for his 2008 publication "Great Black Music": an exhaustive tribute of 110 albums including 1954's "Lady Sings The Blues" by Billie Holiday, the work of Jazz artists Oliver Nelson, Max Roach, John Coltrane, rhythm and blues artists Otis Redding, Ike & Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton; as well as individual impressions of Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, and Mos Def.) His fourth studio CD, Good Bread Alley, was released by Thirsty Ear Records, and his fifth "Homeostasis" (CD Baby) was released in May 2013. Rux has written and performed (or contributed music) to a proportionate number of dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Jane Comfort & Co. and Ronald K. Brown's "Evidence" among others.

Literature

Books by author

Elmina Blues (poetry)

Pagan Operetta (poetry/Short Fiction/SemioText)

Asphalt (novel/Simon & Schuster)

Talk (drama/TCG Press)

Literary fiction

Asphalt (novel) (Atria, Simon & Schuster)

The Exalted (novel) forthcoming

Selected plays

Song of Sad Young Men

Talk

Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die

Smoke, Lilies and Jade

Song of Sad Young Men

Chapter & Verse

Pipe

Pork Dream in the American House of Image

Not the Flesh of Others

Singing In the Womb of Angels

Better Dayz Jones (Harlem Stage)

"Stranger On Earth" (Harlem Stage)

The (No) Black Male Show

Mycenaean

Asphalt (directed by Talvin Wilkes)

Etudes for the Sleep of Other Sleepers (directed by Laurie Carlos)

Steel Hammer (co-written by Will Power, Kia Cothran and Regina Taylor for the SITI company, directed by Anne Bogart).

The Exalted (directed by Anne Bogart)

NPR Presents WATER ± (co-written by Arthur Yorinks, directed by Kenny Leon)

Selected essays

"Eminem: The New White Negro

"Dream Work and the Mimesis of Carrie Mae Weems"

"Belief and the Invisible Playwright"

"In Memoriam: Ruby Dee (1922–2014)"

"Up From The Mississippi Delta"

"Democratic Vistas of Space and Light"

"A Rage In Harlem"

Selected anthologies

Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project University of Texas Press

Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure NYU Press

Heights of the Marvelous NYU Press

Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings Soft Skull Press

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More, DeCapo Press

Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, Counterpoint Press

Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Incorporated

Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theatre, Simon & Schuster

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Three Rivers Press

The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History, State University of New York Press

Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing, Third World Press

Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theater from the Hip-hop Generation, Theatre Communications Group

Bad Behavior, Random House

Verse: An Introduction to Prosody, John Wiley & Sons Press

Significations of Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of a Black Film, UMI Press

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival, Akashic Books

Black Men In Their Own Words, Crown Publishers

Bulletproof Diva, Knopf Doubleday

Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans, Skyhorse Publishing

In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Umbrage Press

Listen Again: a Momentary History of Pop Music, Duke University Press

Journalism

Rux has been published as a contributing writer in numerous journals, catalogs, anthologies, and magazines including Interview magazine, Essence magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, aRude Magazine, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (founded by fellow art critics Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah Hassan) and American Theater Magazine.

Libretti

Makandal (music by Yosvaney Terry, stage design and costumes by Edouard Duval Carrie, directed by Lars Jan) Harlem Stage

Blackamoor Angel (music by Deidre Murray; directed by Karin Coonrod) Bard Spiegeltent/Joseph Papp Public Theater

Kingmaker (music by Toshi Reagon) BRIC Arts Media

Perfect Beauty" (music by Tamar Muskal)

Music

Solo albums

Cornbread, Cognac, Collard Green Revolution

Rux Revue Sony/550 Music

Apothecary Rx Giant Step

Good Bread Alley Thirsty Ear

Homeostasis CD Baby

Singles

"Miguel" (Sony) 1999

"Wasted Seed" (Sony) 1999

"Fall Down" (Sony) 1999

"No Black Male Show" (Sony) 1999

"Good Bread Alley" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Thadius Star" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Living Room" (Thirsty Ear) 2006

"Disrupted Dreams" (Giant Step) 2010

"Eleven More Days" (Giant Step) 2010

"I Got A Name" (Giant Step) 2010

"Living Room" (Kevin Shields Remix) (Mercury) 2013

12-inch singles

"Lamentations (You, Son)" Giant Step Records

Carl Hancock Rux Live at Joe's Pub (forthcoming)

Collaborations

Sweeper Don't Clean My Streets Reg E. Gaines Polygram

Eargasms Vol. 1

70 Years Coming R. L. Burnside Bongload/Acid Blues Records

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Works, Rhino

Bow Down to the Exit Sign David Holmes Go! Beat

Love Each Other Yukihiro Fukutomi Sony/ Japan

Optometry DJ Spooky Thirsty Ear Recordings

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Studio Cast Recording)

Inradio 5 Morningwatch 2004

Thirsty Ear Presents: Blue Series Sampler (Thirsty Ear)

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006 Box Set Shout! Factory (2006)

More Than Posthuman-Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, TruGROID

The Dogs Are Parading David Holmes Universal

Life Forum Gerald Clayton Concord Jazz

Tributary Tales Gerald Clayton

Tomorrow Comes The Harvest Jeff Mills Tony Allen Decca Records

Humanist Rob Marshall Ignition Records

Songwriter

Mckay Stephanie McKay Universal Music

Contemporary Dance (text & music)

Movin' Spirits Dance Co.

Kick The Boot, Raise the Dust An' Fly; A Recipe for Buckin (chor: Marlies Yearby, co-authors: Sekou Sundiata, Laurie Carlos, music: Craig Harris ) Performance Space 122, Maison des arts de Créteil (France)

Totin' Business & Carryin' Bones (chor. Marlies Yearby), Performance Space 122, Maison des arts de Créteil (France)

The Beautiful (chor: Marlies Yearby, co-author:Laurie Carlos), Judson Church, Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Of Urban Intimacies (chor: Marlies Yearby), Lincoln Center Serious Fun!, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour

That Was Like This/ This Was Like That(chor: Marlies Yearby, music: Grisha Coleman), Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Central Park Summerstage, National Tour

Anita Gonzalez

Yanga, (chor: Anita Gonzalez, music: Cooper-Moore, composer), Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Montclair State College

Jane Comfort & Co.

Asphalt (dir/chor: Jane Comfort; vocal score: Toshi Reagon, music: DJ Spooky, David Pleasant, Foosh, dramaturgy: Morgan Jenness, costumes: Liz Prince, lighting design: David Ferri ), Joyce Theater, National Tour

Urban Bush Women

Soul Deep (chor: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, composer: David Murray), Walker Arts Center, National Tour

Shelter (chor: Jawole Willo Jo Zollar, music: Junior Gabbu Wedderburn) International Tour

Hair Stories (chor: Jawole Willa jo Zollar) BAM Theater/Esplanade Theater (Singapore) Hong Kong Arts Festival

Jubilation! Dance Co.

Sweet In The Morning (chor: Kevin Iega Jeff)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Shelter (chor: Jawole Willo Jo Zollar, music: Junior Gabbu Wedderburn) City Center, International Tour

Uptown (chor: Matthew Rushing) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Four Corners (chor: Ronald K. Brown) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2014

Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble (Ailey II)

Seeds (chor: Kevin Iega Jeff) Aaron Davis Hall, Apollo Theater, National Tour

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Theater

The Artificial Nigger (chor: Bill T. Jones) Arnie Zane Bill T. Jones Dance Co; music: Daniel Bernard Roumain National Tour

Roberta Garrison Co.

Certo! (chor: Roberta Garrison, music: Mathew Garrison) Scuola di Danza Mimma Testa in Trastevere (Rome, Italy) Teatro de natal infantil Raffaelly Beligni (Naples, Italy)

M'Zawa Dance Co.

Seeking Pyramidic Balance/Flipmode (chor: Maia Claire Garrison) 651 Arts

Robert Moses Kin

Helen (chor: Robert Moses) Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center

Nevabawarldapece (chor: Robert Moses) Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center

Topaz Arts Dance

Dreamfield (chor: Paz Tanjuaquio) Hudson River Park NY

Actor

Theater

Rux studied acting at the Hagen Institute (under Uta Hagen); the Luleå National Theatre School (Luleå, Sweden) and at the National Theater of Ghana (Accra). Rux has appeared in several theater projects, most notably originating the title role in the folk opera production of The Temptation of St. Anthony, based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, directed by Robert Wilson with book, libretto and music by Bernice Johnson Reagon and costumes by Geoffrey Holder. The production debuted as part of the Ruhr Triennale festival in Duisburg Germany with subsequent performances at the Greek Theater in Siracusa, Italy; the Festival di Peralada in Peralada, Spain; the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Santander, Spain; Sadler's Wells in London, Great Britain; the Teatro Piccinni in Bari, Italy; the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and the Teatro Espanol in Madrid, Spain. The opera made its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music / BAM Next Wave Festival in October 2004 and official "world premiere" at the Paris Opera, becoming the first all-African-American opera to perform on its stage since the inauguration of the Académie Nationale de Musique - Théâtre de l'Opéra. Combining both his dramatic training and dance movement into his performance, Rux's performance was described by the American press as having "phenomenal charisma and supreme physical expressiveness...(achieving) a near-iconic power, equally evoking El Greco's saints in extremis and images of civil rights protesters besieged by fire hoses." Rux has also appeared in several plays and performance works for theater, as well as in his own work.

Film/Television

Radio

Carl Hancock Rux was the host and artistic programming director of the WBAI radio show, Live from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe; contributing correspondent for XM radio's The Bob Edwards Show and frequent guest host on WNYC as well as NPR and co-wrote and performed in the national touring production of NPR Presents Water±, directed by Kenny Leon.

Performance Art Exhibitions/Curator

The Whitney Museum "Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965"

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum "Carrie Mae Weems: Live"

Thread Waxing Space "Sacred Music"

The Foundry Theater "Roundtable on Hope"

The Kitchen "Sapphire: Black Wings & Blind Angels"

Harlem Stage "We Da People Cabaret"

The New School "Comrades and Lovers" Glenn Ligon

Mass MoCA "Until" Nick Cave

Kennedy Center/Spoleto Festival "Grace Notes"; Carrie Mae Weems

Grace Farms "Past Tense"; Carrie Mae Weems

Selected Directorial Credits

"Chapter & Verse" by Carl Hancock Rux /Dixon Place; Nuyorican Poets Cafe

"Mycenaean" by Carl Hancock Rux CalArts/BAM Next Wave Festival

"Third Ward" by Tish Benson/Nuyorican Poets Cafe

"Girl Group" by Tish Benson, Latasha Nevada Diggs, Sarah Jones/Aaron Davis Hall

"Stranger On Earth" by Carl Hancock Rux/ Live Arts; Harlem Stage

"Poesia Negra" by Carl Hancock Rux /RedCat; Lincoln Center; Aaron Davis Hall; BAM Next Wave. *"Who 'Dat Who Killed Better Days Jones?" by (Various Artists)/ Aaron Davis Hall

"blu" by Virginia Grise/ New York Theatre Workshop

"Welcome to Wandaland" by Ifa Bayeza/ Rights & Reasons Theater/Brown University

"String Theory" by Ifa Bayeza/ Rights & Reasons Theater, Brown University

"Bunky Johnson Out of The Shadows" by Ifa Bayeza/Shadows on the Teche

Academia

Rux is formally the Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of Arts and has taught and or been an artist in residence at Brown University, Hollins University, UMass at Amhurst, Duke University, Stanford University, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Eugene Lang New School for Drama, among others.

He has mentored award-winning writers including recipients of the Yale Drama Prize, Whiting Writers Award, Princess Grace Award, and BBC African Performance Playwriting Award.

Personal life

Rux's great uncle, Rev. Marcellus Carlyle Rux (January 8, 1882 - January 5, 1948) was a graduate of Virginia Union University, and principal of The Keysville Mission Industrial School (later changed to The Bluestone Harmony Academic and Industrial School), a private school founded in 1898 by several African-American Baptist churches in Keysville Virginia at a time when education for African-Americans was scarce to non-existent. For about 50 years the school had the largest enrollment of any black boarding school in the east and sent a large number of graduates on to college. For the first five years, Marcellus Carlyle Rux was a teacher in the institution. Such was the record he made that he was promoted to the principalship in 1917. Under his administration, the school reached its highest enrollment and had its greatest period of prosperity. The post-Civil war school was one of the first of its kind in the nation and was permanently closed in 1950. The school's still existent structure once featured a girl's and boy's dormitory and President's dwelling and is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Marcellus Carlyle Rux is listed in History of the American Negro and his Institutions.

Rux's younger brother is a New York City Public School Teacher and his cousin a New York City middle school principal. Rux's older brother died of AIDS-related complications.

Rux's home, a Victorian Brownstone in the Fort Greene Brooklyn section of New York City, has been photographed by Stefani Georgani and frequently featured in home decor magazines and coffee table books internationally, including Elle Decor UK.

Activism

Rux joined New Yorkers Against Fracking, organized by singer Natalie Merchant, calling for a fracking ban on natural gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing. A concert featuring Rux, Merchant, actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo and musicians Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Citizen Cope, Meshell Ndegeocello and numerous others was held in Albany, N.Y., and resulted in public protests.

Rux was a co-producer (through a partnership between MAPP International and Harlem Stage) and curator of WeDaPeoples Cabaret, an annual event regarding citizens without borders in a globally interdependent world. A longtime resident and homeowner in Fort Greene Brooklyn, Carl Rux worked with the Fort Greene association and New York philanthropist Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel to erect a cultural medallion at the Carlton Avenue home where novelist Richard Wright lived and penned his seminal work, Native Son. Rux is a member of Take Back the Night, a foundation seeking to end sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse and all other forms of sexual violence.

Honors, awards, and grants

Rux was featured in Interview Magazine's "One To Watch" and New York Times Magazine's "Thirty Under Thirty". His essay Eminem: The New White Negro was selected for Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2004. Rux's radio documentary "Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself" was awarded the New York Press Club Journalism award for Entertainment News.

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letmestudyaflower · 4 years

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I seem to never have time or simply be able to read. I am working on it, and I thought Id share some of the books I am currently reading, would like to read, or have read. This is for the summer! And yes, I’ve only finished one book so far. It is better than nothing at all, especially with balancing my life and health.

Books I’ve read:

tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

What I am currently reading:

The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways by Robert L. Kelly

Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston

Books I’d like to read next:

Indigenous Pursuits by Lisa Jardine

The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity by David Tilman, Ann P. Kinzig, and Stephen Pacala

Reading the Voice: Native American Oral Poetry on the Page by Paul G. Zolbrod

#what I am reading #books #literature #book recs #book recommendations #book rec list #my post #my bookshelf #my books #reading list

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porlockstompf · 4 years

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2018

my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

wiliam h gass "the william h gass reader" (2018)

post-cyberpunkstompf:

01 cixin liu "ball lightning" (2018)

02 kim stanley robinson "red moon" (2018) 03 dave hutchinson "europe at dawn" (2018) + dave hutchinson "shelter (the aftermath 01)" (2018) 04 paul kincaid "ian m banks (modern masters of science fiction)" (2017) 05 hannu rajaniemi "summerland" (2018)

06 m john harrison "you should come with me now: stories of ghosts" (2017) 07 wade rousch (ed) "twelve tomorrows (2018) 08 christopher moore "noir" (2018) 09 jonathan strahan (ed) "infinity's end" (2018) + jonathan strahan (ed) "the best sf & f of the year, vol XII" (2018) 10 neil clarke (ed) "the final frontier" (2018) + neil clarke (ed) "the best sf of the year vol III" (2018)

11 gardner dozois (ed) "the year's best sf: thirty-fifth annual collection" (2018) 12 steve toutonghi "side life" (2018) 13 mike ashley (ed) "lost mars: the golden age of the red planet" (2018) 14 mary robinette kowal "the calculating stars: a lady astronaut novel" (2018) 15 mingwei song & theodore huters (eds) "the reincarnated giant: an anthology of twenty-first century chinese science fiction" (2018)

16 john zakour & lawrence ganem "the peach-blonde bomber" (2018) 17 becky chambers "record of a spaceborn few" (2018) 18 yoon ha lee "revenant gun" (2018) 19 derek künsken "the quantum magician" (2018) 20 gregory benford "rewrite" [arc] (2019)

21 richard k morgan "thin air" (2018) 22 charles stross "the labyrinth index" (2018) 23 john varley "irontown blues" (2018) 24 peter watts "the freeze-frame revolution" (2018) 25 karl schroeder "the million" (2018)

26 drew williams "the stars now unclaimed" (2018) 27 peter f hamilton "the salvation" (2018) 28 neal asher "the soldier" (2018) 29 nick mamatas "the people's republic of everything" (2018) 30 s j morden "one way" (2018)

31 gareth l powell "embers of war" (2018) 32 alex white "a big ship at the end of the universe" (2018) + alex white "a bad deal for the whole galaxy" (2018) 33 s k dunstall "stars unchartered" (2018) 34 catherynne m valente "space opera" (2018) 35 alastair reynolds "elysium fire" (2018)

36 charles stross "dark state" (2018) 37 n k jemisin (ed) "the best american sf & f 2018" (2018) 38 jack mcdevitt "the long sunset" (2018) + jack mcdevitt "a voice in the night" (2018) 39 elizabeth moon "into the fire" (2018) 40 r.e. stearns "barbary station" (2017) / steven erikson "willfull child III: the search for spark" (2018)

polarstompf:

01 david hewson "the savage shore" (2018)

ex aequo andrea camilleri "the pyramid of mud" (2018) + andrea camilleri "death at sea: montalbano's early cases" (2018)

02 mirko zilahy "de schaduw" (2017) + mirko zilahy "de mythe van de dood" (2018) 03 mick herron "london rules" (2018) + mick heron "the drop" (2018) 04 volker kutscher "babylon berlin" (2017) + volker kutscher "the silent death" (2017) + volker kutscher "goldstein" (2018) 05 chris petit "pale horse riding" (2017)

06 edgar cantero "this body's not big enough for both of us" (2018) 07 ian rankin "in a house of lies" (2018) 08 philip kerr "greeks bearing gifts" (2018) 09 jack grimwood "nightfall berlin" (2018) 10 dolan cummings "the existential leap: a crime story" (2017)

11 ann van loock "de expo '58 moorden" (2018) 12 massimo carlotto "master of knots" (2004) 13 joseph knox "sirens" (2018) + joseph knox "the smiling man" (2018) 14 geir tangen "het meesterwerk" (2017) 15 kate atkinson "transcription" (2018)

16 patrick conrad "diep in december" (2018) 17 jorge zepeda patterson "zwarte trui" (2018) 18 wolfgang burger "heidelberg requiem" (2016) 19 charles cumming "a divided spy" (2016) + charles cumming "the man between" (2018) 20 frank goldammer "the air raid killer" (2018) + frank goldammer "a thousand devils" (2018)

21 andreas norman "stille oorlog" (2018) 22 jesper stein "de onrust" (2018) + jesper stein "papa" (2018) 23 luca d'andrea "in de greep van de waanzin" (2018) 24 jo nesbø "macbeth" (2018) 25 hans dooremalen "descartes in amsterdam: filosofische detective" (2018) / chris pavone "the expats" (2012)

klassikstompf:

01 wiliam h gass "the william h gass reader" (2018)

02 louis armand "breakfast at midnight" (2012) + louis armand "the combinations" (2016) + louis armand "canicule" (2013) + louis armand "cairo" (2014) 03 andrew crumey "the great chain of unbeing" (2018) 04 viv albertine "throw away unopened" (2018) 05 daniela cascella "singed" (2017)

06 ted geltner "blood, bone, & marrow: a biography of harry crews" (2017) 07 steve erickson "zeroville" (2007) 08 olga tokarczuk "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" (2018) 09 julián ríos "the house of ulysses" [] (2010) + julián ríos "poundemonium" [1997] 10 daniel mendelsohn "an odyssey: a father, a son, and an epic" (2017)

11 giorgio van straten "in search of lost books: the forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes" (2017) 12 pascal mercier "night train to lisbon" (2004) 13 tony white "the fountain in the forest" (2018) 14 alejandro zambra "not to read" (2018) 15 gabriel josipovici "the cemetery in barnes" (2018)

16 lucy ives "impossible views of the world" (2017) 17 matthew herbert "the music: a novel through sound" (2018) 18 ann quin "the unmapped country: stories & fragments" (2018) 19 stephen fry "mythos" (2017) & "heroes" (2018) 20 johan swinnen "happening: de aanslag op de Inno" (2017)

21 ermanno cavazzoni "the nocturnal library" (2018) 22 richard powers "the overstory" (2018) 23 alain robbe-grillet "project for a revolution in ny" (1972) 24 melchior vischer "second through brain" (2015) 25 bob van laerhoven "return to hiroshima" (2018) + bob van laerhoven "dossier feuerhand" (2017) + bob van laerhoven "dangerous obsessions" (2015) + bob van laerhoven "heart fever" (2018)

gedächtnisstompf:

01 jacques derrida "geschlecht III: sexe, race, nation, humanité" (2018) + jacques derrida "le goût du secret: entretiens 1993-1995" (2018)

02 tom cohen, claire colebrook & j hillis miller "theory & the disappearing future: on deman, on benjamin" (2011) 03 hannah arendt "het waagstuk van de politiek: over politieke leugens en burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid" (2018) + dirk de schutter "hannah arendt: politiek denker" (2015) 04 serge andré "les perversions #1: le fétichisme" (2013) + serge andré "les perversions #1: le sadisme" (2013) + serge andré "les perversions #1: le masochisme" (2013) 05 ger groot "4 ongemakkelijke filosofen: nietzsche, cioran, bataille, derrida" (2003)

06 mark fisher "k-punk: the collected & unpublished writings (2014-2016)" (2018) 07 molier, ellian, rijpkema (eds) "de strijd om de democratie: essays over democratische zelfverdediging" (2018) 08 florentijn van rootselaar "filosofisch veldwerk: grote filosofen van nu over leven in barre tijden" (2018) 09 lieven de cauter "van de grote woorden & kleine dingen" (2018) 10 nemanja mitrovic "the (im)possibility of literature as the possibility of ethics" (2017)

11 sue prideaux "i am dynamite! a life of friedrich nietzsche" (2018) 12 paul farley & michael symmons roberts "deaths of the poets" (2018) 13 erik bledsoe (ed) "perspectives on harry crews" (2001) 14 kailash c baral & r radhakrishan (eds) "theory after derrida: essays in critical praxis"(2018) 15 agnes czajka & bora isyar (eds) "europe after derrida: crisis & potentiality" (2016)

poesisstompf:

01 john cooper clarke "the luckiest guy alive" (2018)

02 kate tempest "running upon the wires" (2018) 03 robin robertson "the long take" (2018) 04 david austin "dread poetry & freedom: linton kwesi johnson & the unfinished revolution" (2018) 05 tommy pico "junk" (2018)

platterstompf:

01 power, devereux, & dillane (eds) "heart & soul: critical essays on joy division" (2018)

02 michael glasmeier & ursula block (eds) "broken music: artists' recordworks" (2nd edition 2018) 03 mark e smith "messing up the paintwork: the wit & wisdom of mark e smith" (2018) 04 willy dirickx (ed) "de brassers" (2018) 05 tommy mackay "40 odd years of the fall" (2018)

06 john h baker "the art of nick cave: new critical essays" (2013) 07 will oldham "songs of love & horror: collected lyrics of will oldham" (2018) + alan licht (ed) "will oldham on bonnie 'prine' billy" (2012) 08 michael goddard & benjamin halligan "mark e smith & the fall: art, music, & politics" (2013) 09 daniel kane "do you have a band? poetry & punk rock in nyc" (2017) 10 bendle "permanent transience" (2015)

11 david grubbs "now that the audience is assembled" (2018) 12 nick soulsby "swans: sacrifice & transcendence (the oral history)" (2018) + michael gira "the egg: stories" (2018) 13 robert young & irmin schmidt "all gates open: the story of can" (2018) 14 mike goldschmith "discord: the story of noise" (2012) 15 bruce russell "gilded splinters: essays & aphorisms towards an aesthetic of noise" (2018)

16 philippe robert "agitation frite" (2018)² + philippe robert "action friite" (2018) + philippe robert "action frIIIte" (2018) 17 guillaume belhomme, philippe robert, ea "le son du grisli: varèse, tzara, mochizuki & cave" (2018) 18 david stubbs "future days: krautrock & the building of modern germany" (2018) + david stubbs "mars by 1980: the story of electronic music" (2018) 19 blixa bargeld "europa: una letania" [2009] (2018) 20 chris bohn (ed) "the wire"

21 richard hirst (ed) "we were strangers: stories inspired by unknown pleasures" (2018) 22 françois girodineau "nick cave & the bad seeds: tender prey" (2018) 23 mick middles "the fall" (2009) 24 jim dooley "red set: a history of gang of four" (2018) 25 mats gustafsson "discaholics! record collector confessions vol I (2nd ed)" (2018) / + rob van scheers "drie akkoorden & de waarheid: muzikale levenslessen" (2014)

stagestompf:

01 ian rankin & rona munro "rebus: long shadows" (2018)

humorstompf:

01 robin ince "i'm a joke & so are you: a comedian's take on what makes us human" (2018) 02 simon munnery "how to live" (2018) 03 lucien randall "disgusting bliss: the brass eye of chris morris" (2011)

bilderstompf:

01 michael glasmeier & ursula block (eds) "broken music: artists' recordworks" (2nd edition 2018)

02 thomas bernhard & ferry radax "thomas bernhard: 3 days" (2016) 03 ed van der elsken "love on the left bank" (2002) 04 philippe monsel "francis bacon" (1994)

05 paul duncan & jürgen müller (eds) "film noir plus taschen's top 50 pick of noir classics from 1940-1960" (2017) 06 cuauhtémoc medina "manifesta 9: the deep of the modern" (2012) 07 julian schnabel: permanently becoming & the architecture of seeing" (2012) 08 reinhard kleist "nick cave & the bad seeds: an art book" (2018)

wissenschaftstompf & other distractions:

01 brian cox & robin ince "how to build a universe: an infinite monkey cage adventure" (2017)

02 patrick moore & chris north "the sky at night: answers to questions from across the univers" (2012) 03 chip carter "obsessed with star trek" (2011) 04 leon hunt "danger:diabolik" (2018)

cyclostompf:

01 jean cléder "petite éloge de la course cycliste" (2018)

02 max leonard "higher calling: cycling's obsession with mountains" (2018) 03 colin o'brien "giro d'italia: the story of the world's most beautiful bike race" (2018) 04 velominati "wielergoden: de meest heldhaftige renners ooit 38 heroïsche verhalen” (2018) 05 william fotheringham "sunday in hell" (2018)

06 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes" (magazine) o.a. extra editie de giro (2018) 07 jorge zepeda patterson "zwarte trui" (2018) 08 dirk jan roeleven "de nieuwe fiets: villar san constanzo - a'dam" (2018) 09 frederik baeckelandt "gino bartali (les héros 03)" (2018) 10 chris sidwells "the call of the road: the history of cycle road racing" (2018)

10 john dowie "the freewheeling john dowie: a comedian, a bike, & a tent, what could possibly go right?" (2018) 12 edward pickering "the ronde: inside the tour of flanders, the world's toughest bike race" (2018) 13 charles pope "a golden age of cycling" (2018) 14 roger gilles "women on the move: the forgotten era of women's bicycle racing" (2018) 15 peter cossins "the first tour de france: 60 cyclists & 19 days of daring on the road to paris" (2017)

16 paul maunder "the wind at my back: my cycling life" (2018) + paul maunder "rainbows in the mud" (2017) 17 giacomo pellizzari "het geheim van de eenzame fietser" [2015] (2017) 18 dries de zaeytijd & fons leroy "25 jaar kweekvijver van koerstalent" (2018) 19 peter sagan "my world" (2018) 20 bradley wiggins "icons: my inspiration, my motivation, my obsession" (2018)

most pleasing purchases:

01 jayne county "man enough to be a woman" (1996)

02 berns, moyaert, & van tongeren (eds) "de god van denkers en dichters: opstellen voor samuel ijsseling" (1997)

03 anselm kiefer "l'art survivra à ses ruines: anselm kiefer au collège de france" (2011) 04 ludger lütkehaus "'ruhe. grösse, sonnenlicht': friedrich nietzsche in sils-maria" (2014) 05 paul raabe "spaziergange durch nietzsches sils-marie" (1994)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

find me on LT:

TBR... PILING UP ...

postcyberpunkstompf:

adam roberts "adam (the aftermath 02)" (2018) eric brown "the martian simulacra: a sherlock holmes mystery" (2018) gary gibson "scienceville & other worlds" (2018) greg egan "phoresis" (2018) ian mcdonald "time was" (2018) ian whates & tom hunter (eds) "2001: an odyssey in words: celebrating the centenary of arthur c clarke's birth" james lovegrove "firefly: big damn hero" (2018) james patrick kelly "the promise of space & other stories" (2018)

jeff noon "a man of shadows" (2017) + jeff noon "the body library" (2018) kevin j anderson "selected stories: science fiction vol I" (2018) rich larson "tomorrow factory: collected fiction" (2018) seb doubinsky "missing signal" (2018) stephen baxter "redemption" (2018) + stephen baxter "xelee: vengeance" (2018) steve erikson "rejoice" (2018) tom schweterlitsch "the gone world" (2018) & maybe, just maybe: jay key "how to pick up women with a drunk space ninja" (2018) + jay key "how to win a pit fight with a drunk space ninja" (2018)

polarstompf:

dario correnti "heimwee naar bloed" (2018) giancarlo de cataldo "suburra" (2017) matthew pearl "the dante chamber" (2018) victor del árbol "a million drops" (2018) zygmunt miloszewski "priceless" [2013] (2018)

#2018 #rewind #reading #lecture #librarything

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waywardfeathered · 5 years

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it’s not munday yet but since @colourinthesky thought it was, i can also let myself think it is, and share my bookshelf for munday. :DDDDD i reorganized my/our (dean hasn’t moved in yet but some of his books are here and what’s mine is his and the other way round) bookshelf, it’s mostly alphabetical order now (because i got lazy) with nonfiction, some books that stand easily above the bookshelf with poetry, separated.

Top shelf:

恋空 parts 1 & 2 by 美嘉 Love Beyond Body, Space, And Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology by several authors Sandman Omnibus I, II, and Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island and Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery milk and honey and the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur The Dark Between the Stars by Atticus Every Word You Cannot Say by Iain S. Thomas Worlds of You: Poetry and Prose by Beau Tablin wild embers by Nikita Gill Kiltin kapina by Hanna-Maija Valjanen (self-published poetry in Finnish by an old friend) everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by Jomny Sun The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant by Veronica Roth Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch Only Human by Gareth Roberts Untitled Supernatural fanart book by several artists Profound Zine vol. 1 (it’s a Destiel zine, I wasn’t writing for this volume but am for vol. 2) Hamilton the Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

Non-fiction shelf:

Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé by Lee Harrington The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy Drawn to Sex: The Basics by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan The Threesome Handbook by Vicki Vantoch The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty On Writing by Stephen King Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson You’re Never Weird on the Internet (almost) by Felicia Day Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Life Lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh by Janette Marshall Culture Shock! Finland: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Deborah Swallow (blame Dean) Dean’s German textbooks by whoever (SORRY I AM LAZE) The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne

Why Time Flies by Alan Burdick In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat by John Gribbin Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli Kotona Maailmankaikkeudessa by Esko Valtaoja Dance of the Photons by Anton Zeilinger

(more) fiction shelves:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Annabelle by Lina Bengstdotter Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Angels and Demons by Dan Brown The Guitar by Michel del Castillo Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner Skinny by Donna Cooner Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke Follow Me Back by A.V. Geiger Once by Morris Gleitzman The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (dean do we really want to keep this problematic cancer romaticizing antisemitic piece of... a lot of our books are problematic, tried not to say anything about any single one, but.) Looking for Alaska by John Green Paper Towns by John Green Turtles All the Way Down by John Green The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You and Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han Heart-Shaped Box by Joe HIll The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James The Book of Love by Fionnuala Kearney 11.22.63 by Stephen King Elevation by Stephen King Full Dark No Stars by Stephen King The Gunslinger by Stephen King IT by Stephen King

Under the Dome by Stephen King Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis Ash by Malinda Lo Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell Slade House by David Mitchell Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and...

Woken Furies by Richard Morgan 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami More than This by Patrick Ness Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan One Day by David Nicholls Et kävele yksin by Juuli Niemi Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman 1984 by George Orwell The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan A collection of stories by Edgar Allan Poe Paper & Hearts Society by Lucy Powrie Final Draft by Riley Redgate Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson Everyone’s Just So Special by Robert Shearman This Savage Song and Our Dark Duet by V.E. Schwab They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo Kädettömät kuninkaat ja muita häiritseviä tarinoita by Johanna Sinisalo Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith The Fire Chronicle by John Stephens Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandell The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton Paper Girl by Cindy R. Wilson

#; fiance tag #; mun #long post for ts

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whatshehassaid · 5 years

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Ask A Bookworm!

1. what are you currently reading?

I’m currently re-reading Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (I felt like going back to something familiar for a while).

2. how many books have you read this year?

This year? I’ve only been reading HP1 since the year only started almost a week ago. Last year I think it was around 20-30 (not my best year because of the circumstances, but...)

3. how have your reading tastes changed from when you were a child?

I tend to read a lot heavier (physically and textually) books. I like a lot of hardcore dystopian fiction and a lot more true crime non fiction books. As a child I would read either fantasy happy ending type things or teen Victorian love story type books (which I do still pick up from time to time), but I mostly enjoy dark fiction and non fiction now. Also a lot of biographies.

4. physical book or e-book?

I think both have their positive aspects. I do prefer physical books though. I’m an artist, so I like to feel textures and smell scents etc. (I know, I know.... I’m starting to sound pretentious - but it’s true. I’ve always loved the scent of books)

5. where do you love to read?

Usually in bed or on a huge sofa chair. I tend to curl into odd positions when reading 😂

6. what is your ideal reading atmosphere? background noise or silent? alone or with others?

I like silence and being alone.

7. are you a writer?

I wouldn’t consider myself a writer. I did write poetry years ago though (and some fanfic).

8. what was your very first baby book?

The Pokey Little Puppy

9. what was the first book you read on your own?

First full on book? Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.

10. how many books have you read in total?

Over 400.

11. what has been the longest gap between books?

A few months, most likely.

12. what are your favourite genres?

Horror, thrillers, true crime, classics and biographies.

13. what books make you happy?

Hmm.... The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (though the contents make me sad), Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, I like a lot of Edgar Allen Poe’s stuff. Mostly anything by Stephen King... and I really love the Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalco

14. what books have made you uncomfortable? why?

There was a book a while back (True crime) about Jack the Ripper that had very gruesome photos included. Usually I can handle that - apparently not on that day.

15. can you read anywhere? moving vehicle? rollercoaster?

Car, bus, train, library, cafe... I’ve even read in an arcade once... never a roller coaster though ;)

16. how do you bookmark books?

With a bookmark. Whether it be a makeshift one or an actual one. I don’t dog ear books.... that drives me nuts

17. policy on book-lending?

I will... if I know it’ll come back the way I gave it to you.

18. do people know you’re a bookworm?

Haha, yes.

19. how well do you take care of your books?

Very well.

20. can you read in other languages?

Not really... I know a bit of Latin and a bit of Italian but...

21. what is a total book turn-off for you?

Unstructured writing drives me nuts.

22. what is an essential element of a good book?

Good writing for one. Interesting storyline. Detailed and carved out characters.

23. genres you rarely read?

Romance. Harlequin Romance isn’t my thing.

24. do you read non-fiction?

Yes, I love non fiction.

25. do you read reviews on a book before you read it?

Sometimes.

26. do you judge a book by the cover?

Sometimes I do. I try not to though.

27. do you read cover to cover or sometimes skim parts?

Always cover to cover.

28. do you always finish a book, even if it is dull?

Most of the time, yes.

29. how do you organise your books?

Alphabetical by author and then in the author subcategory alphabetical by series or single book - whatever.

30. favourite book this year?

Well, since this year just started... last years favorite was a tie between The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalo and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.

#books #bookworm #survey #:)

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At eighty-one years old, Jan Ball has pretty much learned what is better in life than throwing stones at children. Her #poems are filled with details of her various #life experiences: her seven years in a convent, parenting, life in Australia, teaching and extensive travel but also leave some unanswered questions like: Was That Stephen King? or Research Poem: Does Anyone Really Want to Know About Slime? Jan also raises questions in the declarative: Why I Collect Netsukes, The Battle Scars That Soldiers Get or Catholic Church in London; the latter where Jan revisits her convent days while in London or The Pope in Dorothy’s Magic Shoes where Jan reacts to Easter experiences in Sydney where she lived for fifteen years with her husband and two children. Most of the poems make literary references where Jan puts two and two together. The answer is not always obvious, however.

386 of Jan Ball’s poems appear in journals such as: Calyx, Phoebe, and Storm Cellar in the U.S. and internationally. Jan’s three chapbooks were published with Finishing Line Press as well as her first full-length poetry collection, I Wanted to Dance with My Father. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart as well as twice for Best of the Net. At the personal level, Jan was a nun for seven years then met her Aussie husband and lived with him and their two children for fifteen years in Australia. They lived in Rochester, NY for fifteen years after that where Jan did a doctorate and wrote a dissertation, Age and Natural Order in Second Language Acquisition. They now live in Chicago half the year and Sarasota, Florida, the other half and like to cook for friends wherever they are.

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Ball’s most recent book flings the reader right into a collage of her many life stories, including glimpses into flickering churches, children’s games, books read and journeys between continents. Fruits and fragrances, mind and memory, teaching and learning all come together in a magical arc of a book that leaps seamlessly between worlds near and far, sacred and secular. Ball’s book is peppered with allusions to films and novels, as one who is equally at ease with sea creatures and doppelgangers, and who delights in spinning a tale or two, or ten, for the adventurous reader and armchair traveler.

–Donna Pucciani, poet, author of EDGES

So what IS better than throwing stones? Jan Ball gives us numerous ideas from a stint as a nun, marriage, parenting, teaching, traveling, reading, and research to having weird dreams. And turning a poet’s eye onto everything and every place. She takes us on a journey from her Chicago childhood in yellow keds through the novitiate, on to London, Australia, the South of France and back to Chicago. We watch from the sidelines as she subs in a special education class and teaches English to soldiers from the UAE. Her insights are often enriched with references to literature and popular culture.

I especially appreciate her talent for irony, as when the priest falls dead in the sanctuary just after passing the station of the cross called “Jesus is Condemned to Die” and her unusual juxtapositions, such as comparing the Pope with Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. Jan also has a gift for simile, e.g., “I suddenly feel that I could scurry as fast / as a silvery sand crab.” And if you want a few laughs, you will find them too, and not only in “one more mouse poem.”

–Wilda Morris, workshop chairperson of Poets & Patrons of Chicago, and author of Szechwan Shrimp and Fortune Cookies: Poems from a Chinese Restaurant, Pequod Poems: Gamming with Moby-Dick; and (forthcoming, The Unapproved Uncle.

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By Stephen Jay Morris

April 14, 2021

What a strange world I live in, in this Cyber universe. Not only are the creatures weird, but the overlords are outright nuts! Social media has become a video game. The gamers are the new Baby Boomers. Why is that? A lot of gamer Zoomers are becoming radicalized. The Boomers’ passion was music and then it segued into the New Left. Culture Class warfare? Why not!? I was recruited into the revolution. Music! Video games? Nope! When I heard Barry McGuire's “Eve of Destruction” in 1965, that was the beginning of my political outlook in life.

There was a reply song to “Eve of Destruction” – “Eve of Correction,” by the Spokesmen. It had moderate Democratic Party talking points, the message being “Don’t be a Debbie Downer! We are making progress in the world. After all, we got the United Nations!” The song sounded goofy and cream puff. It even featured a Jew’s Harp. I guess some producer wanted to cash in on the popularity of “Eve of Destruction.” The song bombed.

This influenced me go on the long road to confrontational politics, which wandered from counter-demonstrations, heckling during a speech, letters-to-the-editor, song-writing and performing, poetry, and, finally, to social media on the Internet. When I encounter lies, mistakes, and other forms of right wing propaganda, my fingers get itchy. I am compelled to answer. Now, the subjects I respond to don’t appreciate my doing so. Not because I am telling the truth, mind you. It is because most right wingers want to propagandize without opposition. Many of them get paid by the hour to post Tweets all day from some basement boiler room. Most of them are former state prison inmates. It’s beats the hell out of being a janitor! Posting on social media costs much less and reaches a whole lot bigger audience than buying a full page ad in the New York Times! Conservative posters do not give a tinker damn about the First Amendment! When they complain about “Free Speech,” they’re really complaining about costs, not constitutional rights. It’s free to post on social media. Most conservatives are penny-squeezing misers, so much so that they would take their children’s college fund to buy hunting rifles. That is how cheap they are.

Then, there are the grafters and con artists who make profits from scaring white Americans. I am not mentioning who they are; I’ll just be vague. One right wing web site is run by this egomaniac who makes and posts videos promoting fossil fuel companies, the Religious Right, and Neo liberals. These types of hosts get paid to propagandize for right wing causes. Well, one time, this person posted a video about the death penalty, in which he claimed he was befuddled why the so-called Left doesn’t want to give the ultimate punishment to murderers. Then I mused, via my post on his site, “Shouldn't God be punished for committing mass genocide by flooding the earth?” Now, I have posted snarky shit on his site before and, once in a rare while, he replied. His retorts were always Anemic and unoriginal. Matter of fact, he really is a pea brain. So, he must have became bat crazy when he saw my post about “God.” He reported my post to Twitter and they, in turn, issued me a lifetime suspension. I filed an appeal to Twitter, but I am not holding my breath.

You want to know what rule I violated? There is a provision that states: “if you threaten someone’s life, then you will be thrown off.” Apparently, I threatened Gods life! I am sure God felt threatened by my remark…??

I propose running a “Free Speech” web site where people will never be censored. If not “blanket free speech," then free speech for Leftists only. My style of writing uses racist language, obscenity, and multi-syllabic words that almost no one can understand! I need a platform were I can say whatever the fuck I want! The only advantage I see in using social media is that it does attract a lot of people. I put links any way I can on social media. Someday, I wont have to resort to that tactic.

So I ask you: what is worse? Yelling “FIRE” in a crowded theater or not saying anything?

FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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