Books Read 2022

  1. All The Stars Aflame by Malik Abduh

  2. The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison by Pen America

  3. The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

  4. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle

  5. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

  6. The Total Library: Non Fiction 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges

  7. The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

  8. On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges

  9. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

  10. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

  11. Violent Order: Essays On The Nature of Police by David Correia

  12. If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin OD by Dave Scott Schwartzman

  13. Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis

  14. Watch My Smoke: The Eric Dickerson Story by Eric Dickerson

  15. The Black Agenda by Glen Ford

  16. All Hail Megatron Volume Four by Simon Furman

  17. Transformers 84’ Secrets and Lies by Simon Furman

  18. Transformers: Devastation by Simon Furman

  19. Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata by Satoru Iwata

  20. See You Soon by Mariame Kaba

  21. Notes From Childhood by Norah Lange

  22. People In The Room by Norah Lange

  23. Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume Two by Stan Lee

  24. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu

  25. Butts In Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story by Dirk Manning

  26. Transformers 84’ Legends and Rumors by Bill Mantio

  27. All Hail Megatron Volume Three by Shane McCarthy

  28. There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt

  29. We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality by Louis Moore

  30. Sula by Toni Morrison

  31. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz

  32. Transformers: The Wreckers Saga by Nick Roche

  33. Seven Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges by Fernando Sorrentino

  34. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  35. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  36. Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth

  37. Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui

  38. Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner

  39. The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years

  40. Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years

  41. The Aesthetic of Our Anger by Mike Dines

  42. The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Dave Zirin

  43. The Poems of Hesiod

  44. The Cambridge Guide To Women’s Writing In English by Lorna Sage

Wrasslin' 2022

My final sheet for 2022 is now online.

Armistice Day 2022

I spoke at our Armistice Day event on Thursday. We did one of these back in 2018, I read an excerpt from Robert Graves’ autobiography Goodbye To All That, and are hoping to do one each year moving forward. I read this Harry Leslie Smith essay about his decision, in his 90s, to no longer wear the poppy.