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The End of Eddy – Édouard Louis
What a devastating book. It’s a novel, but very obviously also the author’s experience. Pretty sure they’re calling this autofiction now. Eddy is born into a poor family in the north of France. He knows, and his family knows, he’s gay from day one. This only brings him constant judgement, bullying, and abuse from all …
The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins
Oh America. You make it hard to love you. We like to think of ourselves as leading by example. As fighting for the little man; for the rights of man. We don’t like to think of all the blood on our hands. Bevins shows us the path from the US interference in Indonesia’s push for …
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Another Russian classic by one of the 19th century Russian/Ukranian geniuses running around the steppes. Their personal lives were all messy and full of wild tales, but their writing cuts to the soul of what it is to be human. Is it any surprise that Gogol eventually starved himself to death in a religious fervor? …
Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life – Emily Nagoski
You may know by now that I’m all about science and less about romance. Luckily this is a science book. Well, OK, this is actually an “everything you ever learned about your body and sex is bullshit” book. I want to send this book to every person I know with female parts. I want to …
It’s not just books I read. Every day I send a collection of links to articles I’ve read through my Tiny Letter, the Internet Mix Tape. Come get some shorter recommendations!
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