Friday, November 6, 2020

Need a break? Here's a book.

Hello, book clubbers,

 

Well! This week has been approximately 10,000 years long, hasn't it? If you want election coverage, you know where to go. And if you need a little break, well, that's what we're here for.

 

Last week, we met up with Silvia Moreno-Garcia to talk about Mexican Gothic. Now, we've got a video of the conversation up for you to watch, along with a transcript of some of the highlights. Moreno-Garcia got very nitty-gritty on the nuances of the gothic and on cool mushroom facts, so truly this was my kind of talk. Enjoy!

 

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As is now book club tradition, I asked Silvia what she is reading these days. Her answer was extremely on-theme:

 

The one that I've been recommending has been Tender Is the Flesh, which is a translation of an Argentinian novel. It is about cannibalism. Cannibalism in this dystopian future is legal, so people eat meat, and people are farmed for meat. 

 

I don't want people to think that I am a cannibal! This is a problem when I show my list. But also, Alma Katsu, The Hunger. I just started it, and it's about the Donner party. When they went from the United States, they were heading towards California, I think they got caught in the mountains, and I guess they ate each other. So that happened. So yeah, two kinds of cannibalism.

COMING UP IN NOVEMBER

This November, we're reading Trust Exercise by Susan Choi! Here's what our schedule looks like:

 

Friday, November 20: Discussion post on Trust Exercise

Monday, November 30: Virtual live event with author Susan Choi. We'll send you an RSVP link as soon as it's available.

THE WEEK IN BOOKS ON VOX

 

This week, I took a look at how questions of work, optimization, and self-care have played out in recent pop culture, including in Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even and a reissue of Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals. I'd recommend taking a read through Lorde in particular, if only because the book is one of the places where she developed her ideas of radical self-care, and looking at what happened there is a reminder that there is no subversive idea capitalism can't appropriate, make slightly dumber, and then sell back to you.

 

Happy reading!

 

—Constance

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