Recommended Reading (and Viewing) for our Bookish Friends -The Toast

Previously in this gorgeous series.

Tess Durbeyfield (Tess of the d’Urbervilles)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Eros the Bittersweet (Anne Carson)

Hard Choices (Hillary Clinton)

If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge (Marc Aronson)

Clarissa Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway)

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Amy Sedaris)

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)

Feminism is for Everybody (bell hooks)

Break, Blow, Burn (Camille Paglia)

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Before Midnight (dir. Richard Linklater)

Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter series)

“Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection” (Lewis Carroll)

Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles (Wilhelm Wigworthy)

Antiques Roadshow (PBS)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (Adelle Waldman)

Between Men (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick)

MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction (ed. Chad Harbach)

Stevens (The Remains of the Day)

The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer)

“i carry your heart” (e.e. cummings)

Prospero (The Tempest)

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano)

The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 7 (Miranda Goshawk)

Archive Fever (Jacques Derrida)

Trilby (George du Maurier)

“Crusoe in England,” Elizabeth Bishop

Amy March (Little Women)

White Girls (Hilton Als)

How Should A Person Be? (Sheila Heti)

Rookie Magazine

Twin Peaks

Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)

Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon)

A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)

Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)

Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee)

Lambert Strether (The Ambassadors)

Clueless (dir. Amy Heckerling)

Stephen Dedalus (Ulysses)

Dictee (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha)

My Struggle (Karl Knausgaard)

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)

Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

Antigone

Capital: Volume 1 (Karl Marx)

Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault)

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Giorgio Agamben)

Borderlands/La Frontera (Gloria Anzaldúa)

Jacquelyn and Ronjaunee teach English at UCLA. Ronjaunee usually writes about feminine singularity and Jacquelyn usually writes about alphabet books. Their mutual passions are television, cheese, Lacan, and Madame Sosostris.

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deleted7410012 111p · 546 weeks ago

ahhhh the remains of the day, why?

just thinking about that book makes me anxious. stop serving soup to nazis and go sit with your dying father!

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cosmia 123p · 546 weeks ago

Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter series)

Antiques Roadshow (PBS)

oh my god

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ramina 119p · 546 weeks ago

I WANT TO WATCH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW WITH VOLDY. I bet he knows the Keno brothers.

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vmartinipie 113p · 546 weeks ago

I like when I don't know the character at all, because I get to construct vivid theories about why they've been prescribed such works. Lambert Strether clearly needs some knee socks and a mini.

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gorebooth 120p · 546 weeks ago

Clarissa Dalloway and Oranges are not the only fruit. YES YES YES.

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2 replies · active 545 weeks ago

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gorebooth 120p · 546 weeks ago

I'm always telling people to read Mrs. Dalloway and just stick it out til the Sally Seton part even if they don't love it at first and it NEVER WORKS.

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dakimel 122p · 545 weeks ago

I'm thumbs-upping this whole comment thread, obviously, but yours gets a PREACH, as well.

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gorebooth 120p · October 14, 2014 18:18:10

I'm always telling people to read Mrs. Dalloway and just stick it out til the Sally Seton part even if they don't love it at first and it NEVER WORKS.

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queenofbithynia 137p · 546 weeks ago

I found out last night that Adelle Waldman is a different person from Ayelet Waldman. boy do I feel like a jerk.

plus I think both Prospero and Voldemort could learn at least as much from Rookie and Feminism is for Everybody as Amy March and Clarissa Dalloway could. even, perhaps, more.

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amydieg 102p · 545 weeks ago

i so desperately need to crawl inside Little Women and give Amy Rookie mag. she needs it so bad I could just DIE!

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Philip · 545 weeks ago

Poor Katniss. Marx, Foucault, AND Agamben? Not that she couldn't use them, but that's a lot to digest.

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eegghh 108p · 545 weeks ago

Yeah I think she deserves a little pick-me up. The Hero and the Crown. Tamora Pierce. Something.

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academianut30 91p · 545 weeks ago

Katniss LIVED bare life

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dakimel 122p · 545 weeks ago

Oh, no, don't give Amy the Heti book, she'll take it all so literally. That girl has no filter.

The Tess list is complete perfection.

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lilyemilia 56p · 545 weeks ago

??? Can someone explain to me why "Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles" is on Voldemort's list?

I was expecting something more like "Family Tree Problem Solver" by Marsha Hoffman Rising.

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