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Amanda Nelson

@imamandanelson / imamandanelson.tumblr.com

Ephemera and detritus of a cantankerous reader/writer. Managing Editor, BookRiot.com. Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
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“The thing that gets you up on a Saturday morning is what makes you powerful” – Ann Shoket

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via The Lady Project

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imamandanelson

Waffles?

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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Kurt Vonnegut, the Paris Review

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To call someone “basic” is to look into the abyss of continually flattening capitalist dystopia and, instead of articulating and interrogating the fear, transform it into casual misogyny. And that’s a behavior far more troubling — and regressive — than taking pleasure in all things pumpkin spice.

What We're Really Afraid Of When We Call Someone "Basic"

Source: BuzzFeed
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Online violence has "subverted the original positive promise of the internet’s freedoms," UN Women’s Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in a press release. "And in too many circumstances has made it a chilling space that permits anonymous cruelty and facilitates harmful acts towards women and girls." With this report, the UN strives to reclaim the opportunities that a free and safe internet can offer. "That means recognizing the scale and depth of the damage being done – and taking strong, concerted steps to call it – and stop it."

The UN says we need to 'wake up' and fight violence against women and girls online | The Verge

Source: theverge.com
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humansofnewyork

“I’m a rare book librarian. I get to touch books every single day. My colleague and I have a joke that we are Defenders of Wonder. A physical book assigns a sense of reverence to the content inside. It’s the same feeling you get when you look at a painting or hear a piece of music. And I think that’s something worth defending. And just like a book gives reverence to it’s content, I think the library gives reverence to books. The building itself is a masterpiece. So many famous thinkers have come here to study and write. Just being here connects you to that lineage.”

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Our own Kyle Triplett from the Manuscripts and Archives Division was featured on Humans of New York today - we couldn’t have put it better ourselves!

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imamandanelson

oh hai

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If you’re into wearing corsets and writing with a fountain pen, God bless. If you’re romanticizing an era in which more than half the children born in American cities would die before their fifth birthdays, people on the Internet are probably going to go ahead and make jokes about whether you “love polio.” And if Chrisman wants to wave her freak flag, I’ll support her right to do it — but I sure hope she got her husband’s permission first.

Victorian-lifestyle hipsters unleash “Masterpiece Theater”-level trolling on tech-tethered readers - Salon.com

How I feel about the Victorian perma-cosplayers, basically.

Source: salon.com
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But the professed longing of white writers to reproduce the "authentic" racialized body, the "correct" narrative of otherness, is a convenient disguise for the underlying gestures of colonization and erasure that enable those reproductions to be canonized and rewarded to an extent that narratives produced by othered writers themselves are not. The performance of that longing for "authenticity" serves only to further insist on the centering of whiteness at the expense of writers of color, whose sole role in any conversation about "authenticity" can only be as experts whose testimony serves to reassure the all-pervasive anxieties of whiteness. It goes without saying that that labor of authentication is unpaid.

The Rejectionist | Sarah McCarry: on totems

Sarah McCarry, bringing the noise.

Source: therejectionist.com
#books#reading#racism
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