BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 4 OF 6 Friday, February 10, 2023

"When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them. Bled from them." - Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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It’s new release Tuesday! These are just a few of books that were released today in hardcover and paperback - from fan favorites @lisascottoline, #colsonwhitehead, and @lisajewelluk to @theothernwa. (at The Doylestown Bookshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDWmc6pBSB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Newest arrivals since the last one! Which one should I read next? #babel #rfkuang #theatlasparadox #olivieblake #extasia #clairelegrand #weallfalldown #roseszabo #youmadeafoolofdeathwithyourbeauty #akwaekeemezi #sixcrimsoncranes #elizabethlim #harlemshuffle #colsonwhitehead #bookhaul #bookstagram #instabook #booksbooksbooks #darkacademia #fantasy #readingaddict (na lokaciji Rukavac, Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClYrmIbrXXt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Begnadete Literatur

Besser spät als nie. Endlich kann man die hellwache Prosa der amerikanischen Kultautorin Joy Williams entdecken. Nach den aufregenden »Stories« ist nun ihr Debütroman »In der Gnade« in der Übersetzung der Autorin Julia Wolf erschienen. Read the full article

#blackhistorymonth reads. #colsonwhitehead #henriettalacks #barackobama https://www.instagram.com/p/CpWttndOY60/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Whitehead: Sag Harbor

My August reads: The Flat Rabbit - Bardur Oskarsson The Big Green Book- Robert Graves illustrated by Maurice Sendak The Arrival- Shaun Tan The Fair Botanists- Sara Sheridan ( a selection from @duchessofcornwallsreadingroom ) The Door of No Return- Kwame Alexander ( @kwamealexander ) The Mirror and the Light- Hillary Mantel ( one of the first books selected by the Duchesses of Cornwall, it's the last in the Wolf Hall trilogy . I listened to all three on audiobooks this year. The final passages gave me chills) 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows- Ai Weiwei * Girl, Woman, Other- Bernardine Evaristo ( again The Reading Room) Funny Letters from Famous People- edited by Charles Osgood Harlem Shuffle- Colson Whitehead The Girl from Botany Bay- Carolly Erickson* A Poem for Every Summer Day- edited by Allie Esiri ( @allieesiri ) * normally I go into a little detail about what I've read and how I found out about the books. The books with the asterisks are the last book @aiww memoir and one of the first books ( The Girl from Botany Bay) that my friend Amy recommended to me. She passed away at the end of July. I've had a running list of the dozens of books she'd suggested over the 12+ years of our quirky friendship. Anne Shirley would have said Amy and I were kindred spirits. Amy wasn't sentimental she just inquired if I read the books she suggested. The best way to honor her is to read those books and keep reading. Book recommendations are a love language. Keep reading beautiful people! #booksofig #booksbooksbooks #booklovers #summerreading #ilovebooks #booksofinstagram #thereadingroom #readersofinstagram #readersofig #ilovereading #colsonwhitehead #mauricesendak #shauntan #readmorewomen https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch97zfpL4Ly/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

July TBR. I went for some not as chunky books this month since last month I read all the chunky books and some books with heavy topics as well, so needed something a bit lighter. 📚I used @booksnest’s fictionary prompts to create this TBR. 📚I’ve already dived into Shakespeare and the Countess and it’s very good #books #julytbr #nonfiction #fiction #historicalfiction #mystery #shakespeare #globetheatre #chrislaoutaris #mlrio #maggieofarrell #xochitlgonzalez #fionadavis #sallyrooney #colsonwhitehead (at Monterey, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfhDZiROTPg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#TuesdayBookBlog Crook Manifesto: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) (@LittleBrownUK)

Hi all: I bring you the second novel in a series by an author I discovered recently and added to my list of favourites. Oh, and because with my move to the old blog, many of my reviews are no longer available here, and everything I said about the first novel is quite relevant to his one as well, I have tagged that one on at the end of the post. Sorry! It’s even longer than usual! Crook…

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Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Ray Carney #2)

1971 – Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated – and deadly. When one of Ray’s tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.

In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.

Book page: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/colson-whitehead/crook-manifesto/9780349727646/

My Review: Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite contemporary writers. I think I could read his shopping list and write something like “Brilliant, exciting, strongly recommended” as my brain starts to fangirling and loving every single sentence. I loved his books since I read The Underground Railroad, had a sort of mystical epiphany when I read the Nickel Boy and it was a constant literary love, this means Crook Manifesto was one of my top books of 2023. I know that you usually end a book before reviewing but I’m loving it so much that I cannot wait to talk about it. New York, Harlem, the social changes of the 70s are at the core of this brilliant story. There’s violence, there’s fun and there a lot of food for thought as you wonder if the story is going to repeat. I was curious to read about Ray Carney new enterprises and wondering what would happen. I wasn’t disappointed and I can tell this is a great story, a book that brought me back in time and showed me another side of New York. As I grew up listening to Patti Smith and Television my vision of the city was quite arty and bohemian. This story shows the other city and showed me how normal people was living, the racism and the social issues. It was like travelling back in time to a parallel reality and discovering new aspects and event. The storytelling, the character and plot development are as super as usual and I’m not fangirling while I write this. I strongly recommend it and cannot wait to read the third book in the Harlem Trilogy Many thanks to Little, Brown Book Group UK for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

The Author: Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City.

Website http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/ Twitter: colsonwhitehead

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PyongSublime.

   on the doorpost, bands of a slant-sifted sunrise    - this laser price tag -

i know it is time to leave by the color of the light.

Rolling.

"I've thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, Damn it, I'll sit down. I can't go on. I'm tired of living here in the snow and ice. So I sat down on the ground. But it was cold so I got up." --@MsJeanRhys (via @ColsonWhitehead)

_NOISE STUDY_ NS067.

Storytelling

For me, "Underground Railroad" author #ColsonWhitehead, said it best: "I realized that there was nothing else that would make me whole and no one else was going to write it." Watch me live & long ago #storytelling & working out the plot to #SeatonPlace https://bit.ly/3aBqrKv

From my Do the Work journal. Collage, acrylic paint, Posca paint pens. # "All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man." -Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad #artjournal #artjournaling #visualjournal #visualjournaling #quotes #collage #artjournalpage #artjournals #artistsoninstagram #visualjournals #poscamarkers #poscapaintpens #acrylicpaint #scrapedacrylicpaint #colsonwhitehead #dothework https://www.instagram.com/p/CIf2cf5gr6O/?igshid=2vrsdukga6tr

Wednesday email notification. Shout out to Doubleday books and Edelweiss for gifting this ebook!! It sounds like a winner. Will jump into this weekend. Of course Colson has been on a serious role of late so I’m eagerly anticipating this story. Let’s go! From the Publisher: "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead. #bookpusher #pushingbooksainteasy #doubledaybooks #harlemshuffle #readmorebooks #bibliophile #ownvoicesreviews #goodblackreads #colsonwhitehead #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstagrammer #readingislife (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNaSxYarQCV/?igshid=18kbj3iuc8lj1

Meisterin der Short Story

Die bald 80-jährige Schriftstellerin Joy Williams ist eine Grande Dame der amerikanischen Literatur. Jetzt erst wird sie in Deutschland so richtig entdeckt. Ein Band mit dreizehn dunkel schimmernden Erzählungen liegt bereits vor, ihr hochgelobter Debütroman erscheint im Frühjahr. Read the full article

Just finished reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, a dark and bleak read, wonderfully written and crushing, won't leave you indifferent. I wholeheartedly recommend. #colsonwhitehead #theundergroundrailroad #supportblackauthors #blackstoriesmatter #finishedreading #bookstagram #bookish #pulitzerprizewinner #cora #ceasar #royal #valentine #instabook #readblackauthors #blackbooksmatter #booklover #blackbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgOm4NgB2t/?igshid=1pjwm36x09wy