Emily (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} brooklynmili) wrote,@ 2009-04-16 20:25:00 |
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book reviews
I just put my first post up to![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
50books_poc , which is a community that came out of this year's RaceFail, which was an ongoing discussion about race, cultural appropriation, and racism in the sci-fi and fantasy communities. It's a great place for book recommendations by authors you may or may not have heard of; I'm totally excited to, when I am picking my next book-for-fun, go through and find more genre works by people of color, since I tend to read very internationally/ethnically mixed in my literary fiction choices, but quite white for genre work.
The post is here, and is a review of Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati and Steven Salaita's The Uncultured Wars.
The other initiative I'm following that came out of RaceFail isverb_noire , which is a new press dedicated to publishing genre work about characters of color, queers, and disabled folks. I'm really excited to go buy...basically whatever they publish. I figure, I read sci-fi and mysteries, and Kate reads fantasy and mysteries (and totally used to read romance back in the day! Oh, all those books I sold on eBay...), so we're a guarenteed market.
I just put my first post up to
50books_poc , which is a community that came out of this year's RaceFail, which was an ongoing discussion about race, cultural appropriation, and racism in the sci-fi and fantasy communities. It's a great place for book recommendations by authors you may or may not have heard of; I'm totally excited to, when I am picking my next book-for-fun, go through and find more genre works by people of color, since I tend to read very internationally/ethnically mixed in my literary fiction choices, but quite white for genre work. The post is here, and is a review of Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati and Steven Salaita's The Uncultured Wars.
The other initiative I'm following that came out of RaceFail is
verb_noire , which is a new press dedicated to publishing genre work about characters of color, queers, and disabled folks. I'm really excited to go buy...basically whatever they publish. I figure, I read sci-fi and mysteries, and Kate reads fantasy and mysteries (and totally used to read romance back in the day! Oh, all those books I sold on eBay...), so we're a guarenteed market.
