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Commentary: As Long as Grass Grows + full-metal Indigiqueer

The Decolonize This Book Club read Dina-Gilio Whitaker’s As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock paired with Joshua Whitehead’s debut poetry collection called full-metal Indigiqueer for our June and July meetings. Together, the two texts ask the question: How do we save the world when the apocalypse has already happened?

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Commentary: Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture by John Lukacs

The word nation (at this time in Hungary) did not mean simply a geographical collective of one people. Nation meant the nobility and their ability to control the political landscape of Hungary.⁣ ⁣To be Magyar was not to belong to the people; to be Magyar was to belong to the ruling class.

Commentary, For ReadersChava PossumJuly 21, 2020Hungary, Budapest, 1900, Eastern Europe, John Lukacs, Hungarian writing, Hungarian history, Eastern European history, Eastern European Writing, History, nonfiction, nationalism, nationhood, assimilation

What 2018's Most Popular Reads Can Teach Us About Writing Successful First Chapters

By studying the structure of first chapters, we end up talking everything from non-western vs western literature aesthetics, to discomfort, to the “writerly” image, to passion, to feminism, to reflection as an active force, to time and even physics.