All The Stars Aflame by Malik Abduh
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison by Pen America
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Total Library: Non Fiction 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
Violent Order: Essays On The Nature of Police by David Correia
If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin OD by Dave Scott Schwartzman
Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis
Watch My Smoke: The Eric Dickerson Story by Eric Dickerson
The Black Agenda by Glen Ford
All Hail Megatron Volume Four by Simon Furman
Transformers 84’ Secrets and Lies by Simon Furman
Transformers: Devastation by Simon Furman
Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata by Satoru Iwata
See You Soon by Mariame Kaba
Notes From Childhood by Norah Lange
People In The Room by Norah Lange
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume Two by Stan Lee
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu
Butts In Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story by Dirk Manning
Transformers 84’ Legends and Rumors by Bill Mantio
All Hail Megatron Volume Three by Shane McCarthy
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality by Louis Moore
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz
Transformers: The Wreckers Saga by Nick Roche
Seven Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges by Fernando Sorrentino
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner
The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years
Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years
The Aesthetic of Our Anger by Mike Dines
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Dave Zirin
The Poems of Hesiod
The Cambridge Guide To Women’s Writing In English by Lorna Sage
Worth Reading: July 2021
Benj Edwards on Broderbund’s Print Shop. I have SO MUCH to say about Print Shop in a future episode of Giraffe Feels.
Kerry Brunskill on Super Metroid and being a woman in gaming.
A wonderful tribute to the recently deceased Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report. It is hard to put into words what a massive influence BAR has been on me.
Lou Moore on Juneteenth and baseball for First & Pen.
Edwards on the history of the floppy disk.
Books Read 2020
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality by R. Bach
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Transformers: Unicron by Frank Barber
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Intervention Since World War II by William Blum
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism by Stokely Carmichael
Relentless Pursuit: My Fight For The Victims of Jeffrey Epstein by Bradley J. Edwards
NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW by Guy Evans
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
Dune by Frank Herbert
Transformers: The Manga Volume One by Masumi Kaneda
Transformers: The Manga Volume Two by Masumi Kaneda
Prejudential: Black America and The Presidents by Margaret Kimberly
Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper
The State and The Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Stream Of Life by Clarice Lispector
Superman: Red Son by Mark Miller
I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood 1880-1915 by Louis Moore
James Baldwin: Living In Fire by Bill V. Mullen
Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over The World by Jathan Sadowski
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
A History Of Medieval Islam by John Joseph Saunders
Hate Inc: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale