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[uwmspeccoll]

Winter Solstice 2022

Today, December 21, is the Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day of the year. From today onward, the sun will be in the sky longer and longer each day. This is a day to celebrate making it halfway through the dark days of winter and look forward into the new year with a renewed sense of hope and optimism.

In celebration of the solstice, we are sharing Overhead the Sun: Lines from Walt Whitman, illustrated with woodcuts by Uruguayan-American artist Antonio Frasconi. The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1969. The woodcuts are of the sun and the seasons, printed in bright, saturated colors. I thought the images of the sun were appropriate for the solstice, in view of the sunny days to come. But also appropriate is the woodcut of a tiny, snow-covered house during a snow storm, since we are about to get hit with our own snow storm this weekend! 

Stay safe out there in these winter months and keep an eye on the sun as it stays with us longer and longer each day. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Winter Solstice #Antonio Frasconi #Walt Whitman #Farrar Straus and Giroux #the sun #sun #Overhead the Sun #woodcuts #holidays #midwinter #midwinter day #Let there be light!

[poetsandwriters]

Maggie Millner, author of Couplets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), in this week’s installment of “Ten Questions.”

#Maggie Millner #Couplets #farrar straus and giroux #Inspiration #Quotes #Writer's Block #Writing #Poetry #Fiction #Hybrid #2023

[graphicpolicy]

Weekly preview. A lot of graphic novels!

Weekly preview. A lot of graphic novels! See what's coming to GPTV! #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

There are a lot of comics coming out every week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning! This week’s reviews include: All is Nat Lost (Scholastic) Absolute Zeros (Little Brown and Company) The Baker and the Bard (Feiwel and Friends) Feeding Ghosts (Farrar Straus and Giroux) Forsynthia: Rise of the Cupcakes (Paw Prints Publishing) Making…

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#all is nat lost #farrar straus and giroux #featured #feeding ghosts #feiwel and friends #forsynthia: rise of the cupcakes #graphic novel #graphic novels #holiday house publishing #little brown and company #making friends: together forever #paw prints publishing #scholastic #table titans club #the baker and the bard #video

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 469

Jay’s Journal of Anomalies

Ricky Jay

Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

I actually met Ricky Jay once. At the time—this was in 2008—my friend was working on the UFC tv show, and he invited me to watch the Ultimate Fighter finale which was being filmed at the Palms Casino in Vegas. So we’re there in the food court area having something to eat after the fight, and who should walk in and grab a table near us but the unmistakable Mr Jay. Now this was a bit odd, because I happen to know that he was banned from playing cards in casinos because his slight-of-hand was just that good. However, the David Mamet film, Redbelt, about an MMA fighter and in which Jay had a role, had recently been released, so I imagine he was also there taking in the fight. Anyway, I really wanted to meet him and let him know how much I admired his books. So I screwed up my courage, approached him, and introduced myself. After a few awkward compliments from me, I then sheepishly asked for an autograph, but the only piece of paper I had on me was my ticket for the fight. So he graciously signed that. I’m looking at it right now as I write this—it’s dated June 21st, 2008 and on the back is Jay’s signature, written in faded ballpoint. It’s one of the very few autographs I have ever asked for, and the only one I still have.

#bookshelf #illustrated book #library #personal library #personal collection #books #book lover #bibliophile #booklr #Jay’s journal of anomalies #ricky jay #farrar straus and giroux #magic #cultural history

[thefugitivesaint]

Evolution comprises many processes — natural selection and randomness among them. In more complex animals, randomness is suppressed, because there are so many interdependent processes in these complex bodies. But in “simpler” forms, randomness can flourish. Slime molds and radiolara — they just VIBE OUT. Like a generative art project.

‘Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence‘ by James Bridle. pg. 239 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)

#ways of being #james bridle #radiolara #slime molds #farrar straus and giroux

[roughghosts]

In the end, only the laughter remains: Austral by Carlos Fonseca

“Only someone who knows he is condemned can clearly see the path to salvation.” Carlos Fonseca is a writer who delights in spinning complex webs that blend history, fiction and a distinct fondness for archival elements to create a framework within which important ideas and themes can be explored. As with his earlier works, Colonel Lagrimas and Natural History, his new novel Austral reaches across…

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#Austral #book review #books #Carlos Fonseca #Costa Rica #Farrar Straus and Giroux #literature #Megan McDowell #Spanish #translation

[publishedtoday]

House of Yesterday - Deeba Zargarpur

Struggling to deal with the pain of her parents’ impending divorce, fifteen-year-old Sara is facing a world of unknowns and uncertainties. Unfortunately, the one person she could always lean on when things got hard, her beloved Bibi Jan, has become a mere echo of the grandmother she once was. And so Sara retreats into the family business, hoping a summer working on her mom’s latest home renovation project will provide a distraction from her fracturing world. But the house holds more than plaster and stone. It holds secrets that have her clinging desperately to the memories of her old life. Secrets that only her Bibi Jan could have untangled. Secrets Sara is powerless to ignore as the dark truths of her family’s history rise in ghostly apparitions -- and with it, the realization that as much as she wants to hold onto her old life, nothing will ever be the same. Told in lush, sweeping prose, this story of secrets, summer, and family sacrifice will chill you to the bone as the house that wraps Sara in warmth of her past becomes the one thing she cannot escape…

#house of yesterday #deeba zargarpur #november 29 2022 #farrar straus and giroux

[thebookbin]

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Genre: queer theory, politics Year: 2020

I just finished The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser, and I am absolutely blown away. I picked this book randomly because I was waiting for Wyatt's recommendation "Gender Madness" to come in from the library.

This book should be essential reading for all queer people, especially people in the US. Gevisser is a white gay South African who set out to find the "pink lines" of queer rights. He starts close to home, following the story of a trans Malawian refugee in South Africa, a gay Ugandan refugee in Nairobi, lesbians in Cairo, a trans woman fighting for custody in Moscow, the trans youth of Michigan, lesbians in Mexico and the communities of kothis in rural India. He talks to a gay Israeli dating a Palestinian, interviews genderqueer Filipinos⁠—the scope of this book is truly remarkable.

This book has such an impactful insight on queerness around the world, and has fundamentally changed me. Although it's not the point of the book, Gevisser really highlighted for me how America and the West is colonizing queer spaces by forcing the LGBT label onto communities that already had indigenous varying gender expressions and how in the African nations, both Christian organizations and western LGBT organizations are each harming the community through their respective agendas.

Gevisser is highly aware of his status as a white man, and although gay, from South Africa where gay marriage has been legal since 2005 (it really blew my mind to discover just how far behind the US is on a lot of these issues), and approaches his work with a level of compassion that I find comforting. He removes himself from the narrative as much as possible, only commenting to reflect on how his own identity might be shading his opinions and experiences, but the way in which he describes the people in this book shows the extent of his care.

Hands down the most important and impactful queer theory book I’ve ever read

~Update~ I really need to sleep but I’m never gonna shut up about this

Also it was published in 2020 and he interviewed them for 5 years so it’s super current. Like 2015-2020

~Update 2~ Jk I’m back my mind is racing

Another really poignant underlying theme for me is that universally, all of the refugees felt one thing: they wanted to go home. They wanted, more than anything, the ability to be themselves in their own culture. The refugees of Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Nigeria, while grateful they were safe, without exception every single one wanted to go home. And it really challenged the narrative for me that people always want to come to the West. I never believed the conservative talking point about people coming to the US to take your job and steal your livelihood but this pushed back on the assumption I didn’t even realize I had that the West was at the forefront of the “pink line” as Gevisser puts it. While the US does take a prominent role in the conversation (he talks about the bathroom bills and sports conversations started in the US around trans youth) and how the LGBT label became de facto in a lot of places because of the prominence of American media, the West is such a non-entity in most of these peoples lives. They don’t want to go anywhere they want to stay where they are and be accepted.

storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston

★★★★★★★★★ essential reading stars. I listened to it but I just bought a copy for my personal library.

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[lilibetbombshell]

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[thegirlwiththelantern]

2024 Children's and Middle Grade

There are quite a few Nosy Crow books on the list. I went through the publishers who have catalogues first and that’s how it panned out. The next children’s and middle grade releases will hopefully be more balanced. The Unbeatable Lily Hong by Diana Ma | 02 / 01 / 24 – Clarion Books If there’s one thing Lily Hong can’t stand, it’s being second best. That’s why she and Max Zhang have been bitter…

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[primmlife]

Review: Milton Friedman

Review: Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns from Farrar, Straus and Giroux #politics #economics #conservatives #MiltonFriedman

Intellectual biographies are a weakness of mine (see also: Jacques Derrida and Edgar Allan Poe). I’m interested in how people learn, form, and live their ideas, and if those people are intellectuals, so much the better. Education, study, and becoming an expert in something matters greatly to me. Reading about how others have done that provides lessons for me. This applies even if I disagree with…

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#Biography #Book Reviews #Books #economics #Farrar Straus and Giroux #Highly Recommended #history #Intellectual Biography #Jennifer Burns #learning #Milton Friedman #Reading #Recommended #Review

[cafehopping]

Work till you drop

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in AmericaBy Eyal Press270 pp. Farrar, Straus Giroux. $28. A deep dive into what capitalism has wrought in America and its labor force today. You know the truth — a lot of the work that’s deemed “essential” in this country, and throughout much of the West, is work that’s heavily stigmatized. By the same token, many of those who are…

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#book review #capitalism #dirty work #eyal press #Farrar Straus and Giroux

[bargainsleuthbooks]

#KingThelifeofMartinLutherKingJr #JonathanEig #BookReview #May2023Books #AudiobookReview #SimonandSchuster # FarrarStrausandGiroux

Have you picked up the new #MartinLutherKingJr biography by #JonathanEig? It's 800+ pages of well-researched work. I opted for the #Audiobook version. #KingThelifeofMartinLutherKingJr #BookReview #May2023Books #AudiobookReview #SimonandSchuster

The first major new biography of Martin Luther King Jr in over 40 years, Jonathan Eig’s superb King is based on years of research, hundreds of interviews with those who knew him and many thousands of previously unreleased documents, including a huge cache from the FBI. Eig reveals King’s story to be more compelling and more complex than we knew. For too long, his radical vision for the future…

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[theobviousparadox]

Review: One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Review: One for All by Lillie Lainoff

One for AllLillie LainoffFarrar, Strauss and GirouxPublished March 8, 2022 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About One for All An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant…

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#Children&039;s Literature #chronic illness #disability #Farrar Straus and Giroux #fencing #France #friendship #gender-bent retelling #Lillie Lainoff #Paris #POTS #sisterhood #Strong Heroine #Three Musketeers

[dynamobooks]

Bernard Malamud: The Assistant (1957)

#Bernard Malamud #assistant #literature #time 100 #inmigrant #jewish #grocery #jonathan rosen #brooklyn #farrar straus and giroux

[geoffwhaley]

Book 944: The Kingdom of Sand - Andrew Holleran

Book 944: The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran #age #aging #death #family #fiction #florida #friends #gayfiction #literaryfiction #lgbtfiction #time #bookreview #books #bookbloggers

I wanted to like this book so much like really wanted to, because Holleran is one of those early LGBT authors whose work has stood the test of time for decades. And that’s why I requested a copy from NetGalley.* What I didn’t expect was how similar to Mrs. Dalloway and A Single Man this would be. I think that bodes well for the longevity of the novel, but unfortunately, for me, it wasn’t the time…

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