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
Weekly Reader
In the late sixties and early seventies, before she was known as an author, Morrison was a Random House trade editor who almost singlehandedly introduced black radical activists to mainstream American readers. No single editor or major publishing house has surpassed Morrison’s contribution in the intervening four decades. Cofounder of the Black Panther Party Huey P. Newton (To Die for the People, 1972); prison activist and Black Panther field marshal George Jackson (Blood in My Eye, 1971); and Angela Davis (Angela Davis: An Autobiography, 1974) were all published by Morrison at Random House. Morrison did not necessarily embrace these ideologies, but believed it was invaluable that they circulate in the marketplace of ideas—despite their demonization by the U.S. government.
Cameron Kunzelman on "centering" race in Real Life Magazine...
Booker, as a Black politician, is obliged to perform hope for America’s future even as its legacy of racialization and oppression is being brought to bear on him. He has to recognize that he’s being fundamentally devalued by the institution he has invested in (which, indeed, has a long legacy of such devaluing as part of its role in maintaining racial hierarchy). His rhetorical negotiation of the tension between his power as a Senator and his power as a Black man marks his saturation point. He has to stand up and defend a racial justice bill with the entire force of his history as a Black man against the bureaucratic “neutrality” of a procedural argument. It clearly pains him to do so, and the institution eats that pain without any regard for him as a person or his well-being. And the next time it comes up for a vote, he’ll have to do it again.
A tribute to the late Riley Gale from Sam Reiss…
Riley was also most generous, as generous, with people who didn’t have anything traditionally productive going on, who wanted to be in the mix and hang out or make time; no one needed to justify their existence to be close to him, they were accepted as people… he pulled them close, not what they did, and he would be very cool to them…. it’s nice to see that kind of acceptance. He would also bring massively successful people into the mix as just another friend, or transpose them from one milieu to another… “this is my friend who happens to just churn out comics for a living… that’s how she pays her rent… this fool here makes movies… you guys would totally get along and you have to meet them…” and so we did… and they would be along for the ride or off to the sideline or taking part in some back room somewhere or hearing some story about pissing on a statue in Europe, everyone in the circle as if they had been in the mix with him since he was young in Denton… and that would be a trip for them too.
Stockton Book Donation
This summer, I was down at Stockton to have lunch with Tom Kinsella. On my way in, I stopped at the library to donate some books I had read in classes while a student from 2001-2006. I thought it was a neat idea and Stockton's librarians were very interested. I would like to do the same at Monmouth someday too when I am back up in that area.
Here is a list of the books I donated:
The first Electronic Literature Organization collection CD
Kindred by Octavia Butler (African American Literature)
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (From Books To Movies)
Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (Senior Seminar: Postmodernism)
Acid Free Bits by Nick Montfort
The Aspern Papers by Henry James (Readers, Writers, and Books)
The Life Of Pi by Yan Martel (Readers, Writers, and Books)
City Of Glass by Paul Auster (Senior Seminar: Postmodernism)
The Nietzsche Anthology (Moral Theories)
The Iliad (Homer)
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (Senior Seminiar: Postmodernism)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (African American Literature)
The Odyssey (Homer)
Another Country by James Baldwin (African American Literature)
