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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

300 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Earthdivers, Vol. 1 by Stephen Graham Jones

Earthdivers, Vol. 1

Stephen Graham Jones

176 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
fiction comics horror science fiction adventurous dark tense fast-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts

Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again

Reggie Watts

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction autobiography emotional funny reflective medium-paced
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are by Tariq Trotter

The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

Tariq Trotter

208 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction art memoir medium-paced
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut

The MANIAC

Benjamín Labatut

368 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
fiction historical literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle

Harlem #1

Colson Whitehead

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
fiction crime historical literary adventurous tense medium-paced
On Failure: Or, on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer by Stephen Marche

On Failure: Or, on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer

Field Notes #6

Stephen Marche

128 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction essays reflective medium-paced
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest

Hanif Abdurraqib

207 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction essays memoir music reflective slow-paced
This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

This Is Not Miami

Fernanda Melchor

147 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0bcosta052's review
nonfiction essays dark informative reflective fast-paced