I optimistically hope that the next links round-up will include the Millions‘s great book preview for the second half of 2022, but since that wonderful post has not yet arrived, you will have to make do with Lit Hub’s second-half of 2022 book preview instead. You may also enjoy NPR’s Books We Love tool, formerly the Book Concierge, which covers the first half of 2022 and always blows my TBR list to hell. Akwaeke Emezi talks to Elle about their latest book title, ghosts, and getting plot ideas from their dreams. Thailand is a premiere destination for gender-conforming surgery —…
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In a lovely moment of reading serendipity, I happened to pick up Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir, Dear Senthuran, in the same week that I was working my way through Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. Emezi is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and young adult literature, with three books under their belt and more to come. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an astrophysicist who’s come to public prominence in part through her accessible science writing for popular outlets like Slate and Bitch magazine. I started these two books thinking that they would be worlds…
Leave a CommentAre there infinite ways to say THIS HAS BEEN A WEEK? Because that’s what I need. In Louisiana alone, the cops killed a Black man named Trayford Pellerin (link); a white guy killed an unarmed Black man in a Trader Joe’s parking lot (link); and a massive (though not as massive as we feared) hurricane struck the southwest coast of the state (link). That is one single state that those things happened in. And yet at the same time things keep happening in many states. Please, please do whatever you can do to ensure that Trump does not get reelected…
Leave a CommentHands up everyone who read Freshwater and thought “When will Emezi grace us with a YA novel? That is clearly their metier.” Because I freely admit that I was not among your number. Freshwater was one of my best reads of 2018 — the writing was brutal and gorgeous, and I felt elated to be reading the debut of an author of Emezi’s talent, and to know that they had a whole writing career ahead of them and I would get to read all those books. But still, when I saw the announcement that Emezi would be releasing a YA…
Leave a CommentWell, 2018 is finally over, my friends. I saw a Twitter poll that was like “how equipped are you to handle 2019 as compared to 2018” and I legitimately did not know how to answer it. At this exact moment, coming off a vacation in which I gave and received many presents, possessed of a majestic goals board and a brand new planner, I am feeling very equipped to deal with 2019. However, let it not be forgotten that I felt this same way in January 2018, whereupon I was promptly hit by a car and broke my neck. I…
Leave a CommentHappy Friday, friends! When my alarm went off this morning I lay in bed for two (2) minutes wishing not to get up, and I only successfully did get up by reminding myself that I can sleep late tomorrow. I AM SO TIRED. But here are some good links for you to enjoy. Emily Asher Perrin’s Tor.com piece on identifying with uncool characters spoke to my nerdy, rule-abiding heart. Akwaeke Emezi talks about finding a path to a truer identity, through Nigerian spiritual beliefs and Western surgeries. This interview with Jia Tolentino reminds me of so many reasons why I…
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