they can’t kill us until they kill us

Wrapping Up 2019 (More Books Read Than Reviewed)

American Like Me by America Ferrera

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

So Big by Edna Ferber

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib

December 30, 2019 by Jenny S 3 Comments

So this has been a year when sitting down to write book reviews has not been my strong suit. According to Goodreads, I’ve read 47 books and that may actually be missing one or two; however, I don’t think I’m going to make it to a half Cannonball this year. So, here are some books that I read this fall that I thought were worth mentioning, even if I didn’t give them full reviews at the time. American Like Me-Reflections on Life Between Cultures: America […]

I don’t remember the first time I heard a racist joke at a punk rock show. Rather, I don’t remember the first time I was grabbed into a sweaty half-hug by one of the laughing white members of my Midwest punk scene and told don’t worry about it. We don’t think of you that way.

May 7, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

You should go read this one. For one, it’s a really satisfying set of cultural essays written with the mindset and language of a well-informed poet. It’s also a perfect execution in observation and scope. Abdurraqib knows what he’s talking about. I mean that in non-colloquial ways. His perspective from which these essays are written are so interconnected with their topics and his sense of scale and scope are generally perfectly in tune. He doesn’t speak beyond his knowledge, he doesn’t speak for anyone besides […]

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