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Jen Wang's avatar

I have two very different faves of the year. The first is Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte. I've read and heard A LOT of poetry these past couple years as I get back into writing. Melania stood out because she's an amazing performer (her piece "Afro-Latina" was spotlighted by Instagram), and her poems bring a reality to concepts that get talked a lot but may not always be represented well: intersectionality, colonialism, generational trauma, and identity. I learned a lot from her poems.

For something completely different, I'm currently obsessed with Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu . It's a Chinese fantasy webnovel that has been adapted into a comic and a cartoon. It's a queer romance with ghosts and gods, and I'm learning a lot about Chinese mythology, which very different from Western or even Egyptian.

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It is on my list but I do have to read some more current stuff first. I seem to unconsciously slide towards mid century writers just as I have a bias for music from certain decades and genres. It’s a big world out there but so tempting to only pick from the trees I know.

This was the first Golding I have read and now do I see what all the fuss was about.

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