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Sara Jaffe’s Book Notes music playlist for her story collection Hurricane Envy
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. The stories in Sara Jaffe’s collectionHurricane Envy are smart and surprising, thought-provoking and funny.
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Today’s Problems
It started this morning before we got out the door, when my baby ran up the stairs and said he wouldn’t go to school. “Why?” I said. He’s not a baby anymore. “Did something bad happen yesterday?” I called up to him. I had to ask, though he’s always been stoic about his wounds. “Did that Hudson kid do something?” I pushed, “Was it Teacher Joy?” In my tone, I could tell, impatience edged out concern. I did the thing where you take a deep breath. “Come on banana, I have to get to work.
1979: Gang of Four, Entertainment! — SIXTYEIGHT2OHFIVE
I was 18 and I had never kissed anyone. My body was a container, the basic frame I needed to cart around my brain, something to dangle my hands off of. I had powerful crushes I rarely revealed, knit through with a desire more for connection, for care, than anything like sex. It didn’t occur to me to masturbate. For most of high school I had tried, more or less, to be girlish, mostly because I wasn’t aware of another option.
Notes on Queer Conception and the Redefinition of Family
So how did you do it? When my partner was pregnant with our now-five-year-old, that’s a question we got alarmingly often from well-meaning (straight) friends. Sometimes, in a particularly benefit-of-the-doubt kind of mood, we’d answer truthfully: we inseminated at home with a known donor, a friend.
Catapult | Catapult | The Astronomers | Adam Byko
Brian shattered into a field of light while he was supposed to be teaching Matilda how to ride her bike. The training wheels had just come off, and she was wobbling unsteadily down the alley behind our home. I could see it all clearly through the kitchen window: Brian’s good hand on the small of Matilda’s back, guiding her forward. The glow bleeding through his fingertips, then exploding out, taking his body with it. Matilda pedaled forward, oblivious.
An Ode to Team Dresch, The Lesbian Queercore Band That Made Me Who I Am
When I was 17, I wrote a letter to Kaia Wilson, the singer and guitarist of Team Dresch. It was 1995, and the influential 90s queercore band had recently released their first full-length album, Personal Best. What I probably wrote was that a year or so before, I had realized that I liked girls, and I didn’t know what to do about it. In my liberal New York City suburb, I wasn’t particularly worried about being gay bashed or ostracized, but I didn’t know anyone who was out.
Andrea Kleine: On Writing and Living the Artist’s Life
Within the first pages of Eden, Andrea Kleine’s new novel, teenaged Hope and her slightly older sister, Eden, are abducted by a stranger at a bus station. For the remainder of the novel, Hope, now 35, doles out details of the kidnapping. In the narrative present, she’s embarked on a search for her sister, who she hasn’t heard from in years. The story eddies around these dual mysteries: what really happened all those years ago? And what does it have to do with where Eden is now?
Sara Jaffe
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Andrea Kleine: On Writing and Living the Artist's Life
Within the first pages of Eden, Andrea Kleine’s new novel, teenaged Hope and her slightly older sister, Eden, are abducted by a stranger at a bus station. For the remainder of the novel, Hope, now 35, doles out details of the kidnapping. In the narrative present, she’s embarked on a search for her sister, who she hasn’t heard from in years. The story eddies around these dual mysteries: what really happened all those years ago? And what does it have to do with where Eden is now?
Queer Time: The Alternative to “Adulting”
In its 2015 “word of the year” vote, the American Dialect Society shortlisted the verb form of “adult”—i.e., “adulting”—as one of the “Most Creative” new usages. The term’s emergence among Millennials speaks to a generational uncertainty about what it means to grow up—or rather, about the behaviors one associates with adulthood. This uncertainty manifests as a kind of self-consciousness about what the “right” age is to partner off, have kids, buy a house, settle into a career.
Dryland by Sara Jaffe
In 1992, global issues like the AIDS epidemic dominate the newsstands as fifteen-year-old Julie scans swimming magazines for information on her brother, Jordan. Once a swimming superstar headed for the Olympics, Jordan’s mysterious move to Berlin has left Julie desperate to see his next step.
Michelle Tea by Sara Jaffe
A little less than halfway through Michelle Tea's new novel Black Wave, our narrator—also named Michelle—reveals that the story she's been telling is not the "true" version of events. Originally, she tells us, this was to be a book about the end of a major long-term relationship, but the ex didn't want to be written about.
Hollywood’s Punks
I NEVER REALLY GOT into early L.A. punk — which made me feel as if I was never actually punk. Or, I claimed punk as an ethos, not a style, and the style that I was actively not claiming was, I thought, well encapsulated by L.A. punk: three-chord songs that were at once bouncy and sneering, an overwhelming agro, brawny white-dude masculinity. Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk serves as a corrective to my (I think widely held) prejudice.
The Moment When We Stopped Being Just Friends
Welcome to "It's Complicated," a week of stories on the sometimes frustrating, sometimes confusing, always engrossing subject of modern relationships.Apparently, I was skulking the first time we saw each other, in a hoodie with the hood up, slunk down in my chair near the front of the room. In a way the opposite of N., professional, alert, in pearls no less, but as far from the front of the room as she could get. Our own particular iterations of trying/not-trying.
‘M Train,’ by Patti Smith
Upon returning home to New York from a long trip to Japan, Patti Smith discovers that she has left her Moleskine writing notebook on the plane.
M Train by Patti Smith
Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." From the National Book Award-winning author of: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world.
Events - Powell's Books
Get off the couch! — but not until you're sure it's worth the effort. Stay abreast of Powell's readings, special events, offers, and more with our periodic updates. Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($285) includes free parking and snacks and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 15 to October 15.
Events - Powell's Books
Get off the couch! — but not until you're sure it's worth the effort. Stay abreast of Powell's readings, special events, offers, and more with our periodic updates. In 1970, actress Elaina Styles was slain in her Seattle mansion along with her husband and their son's nanny. When the baby's remains were found buried near a hippie commune, police moved in — only to find all its members already dead in a grisly mass suicide.
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
New York Times bestseller J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s. His creative attention to detail in these lectures gives rise to a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision.
Near Enemy (Large Print) (Spademan Novel)
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PowellsBooks.Blog - Summer Friction - Powell's Books
I was crying or almost crying for most of Fun Home: The Musical — I already loved Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, and I've always been a sucker for the way musicals make melodrama catchy. The song that got me most was "Ring of Keys," a song about a primal moment of identification: Sydney Lucas, playing a young Alison, is at a luncheonette with her father, and a butch delivery person comes in.
McToad Mows Tiny Island: A Transportation Tale
McToad likes Thursdays. Thursdays are the days he gets to mow Tiny Island! Travel with McToad and his trusty lawnmower on trucks, trains, forklifts, airplanes, helicopters, boats, and cranes to get to Tiny Island! From Tom Angleberger, author of the bestselling Origami Yoda series, and wonderfully illustrated by John Hendrix, McToad Mows Tiny Island is a fun and satisfying read. Recommended by , Powells.com McToad likes Thursdays. Why?
Events - Powell's Books
Get off the couch! — but not until you're sure it's worth the effort. Stay abreast of Powell's readings, special events, offers, and more with our periodic updates. Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($285) includes free parking and snacks and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 15 to October 15.
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
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In a year full of debates on who is and isn't doing feminism "correctly," Roxane Gay's book of essays was a refreshing look at the expectations we hold for both women in the spotlight and ourselves as self-declared feminists. Volleying between humor, literary critique, and honest reflection on her life and career as an educator, Gay makes a case for the bad feminist in each of us fighting the good fight in a problematic world.
By Ron Charles Verified, San Francisco Chronicle, Roxane Gay, Edan Lepucki, Sara Jaffe, Susan E. Kirtley, Erika Schickel
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