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Monk Reviews ARKDUST by Alex Smith
ARKDUST. What can I say? I’ve watched local legend Alex Smith perform his short stories for years now, and his tales always always always make me giddy with amazement and emotion. I love the mixing of mundane details with fantastic element, his penchant for perspective jumping and simultaneous layer weaving, his exacting captures of the…
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Monk Reviews The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The History of White People is written by Black historian and author, Nell Irvin Painter. I haven’t read a ton of history books for fun, but this one was a ~very~ smooth read. Physically, it’s one of these floppy pulp paperback books with pleasing wop-wobble heft. There’s a chapter titled \White Slavery as Beauty Ideal\,…
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Monk Reviews Old Futures: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram in May of 2019, so I will keep all the markup from that original here. I came across this book in @pennbookcenter* >> Alexis Lothian’s OLD FUTURES: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility. Very much an academic’s book, yet well worth reading if you have the wherewithall…
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