Stony the Road – 5/5 Stars Yet another book that presented answers to questions in part, but mostly added to my reading list, this slight book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. was written to support a documentary and to provide additional resources, analysis, and insight into the post-Civil War Reconstruction and Jim Crow periods in the US. For a more robust understanding of the Reconstruction era, Gates points us to WEB Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, which was one of the first extensive histories […]
Mixed Grill
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr
Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
Who will Pay Reparations on my Soul? by Jesse McCarthy
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft
Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin
The Iliad by Homer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Whores for Gloria by William T Vollmann
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Celebration by Harry Crews
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews
Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah