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Favourite reads of 2024 (so far)

- Biography of X - Catherine Lacey - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-joo - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan - Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin - Swing Time - Zadie Smith - My Manservant and Me - Hervé Guibert - Breast and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami - Ulysses - James Joyce - The Years - Annie Ernaux - The Coin - Yasmin Zaher - The Idiot & Either/Or - Elif Batuman - Purity - Andrzej Tichy - Butter - Asako Yuzuki

@fanbeth

Nov 5, 2024

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10 Best books of the 2020s so far

According to one Mouse: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - a magical, mysterious book unlike any other I’ve read and possibly my favourite of all time. A story told in journal entries of Piranesi, a man who lives in a huge labyrinth filled with statues. Memorial by Bryan Washington - a gorgeous tender story of a gay couple told from both sides. Stunningly empathetic and just perfect in its humanity, and use of food as character and relationship device. Milkfed by Melissa Broder - a weird bisexual masterpiece. Sex, food, obsession. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - a history of quantum physics written by the man known as “the poet of physics”. written so as to be understood by anyone, mostly to tell us that even the physicists cannot fully grasp the reality of it. Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith - ghost story depicting a decade of Vietnamese folklore and history. Magical, powerful, mysterious. I couldn’t believe it when I found out this was a debut novel and when I finished it I just sort of sat there for a while. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - a woman’s wife comes back from sea, but she is changed, and continues to change. Gay, magical realism. A beautiful allegory that can be read in a day. White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Smith - surrealist retellings of fairytales by my all time favourite short story writer Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit - a memoir and potent exploration the silencing and erasure of women by men Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh - all three of her books her 5 stars, she’s not missed yet. Blue Ticket is like Margaret Atwood meets Angela Carter. Dystopian feminist speculative fiction told with an almost surreal minimalism at times and almost magical vibrancy at others. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - a scientist born of immigrant parents studying addiction, after her brother died at its hands. Grapples with grief, faith, identity, religion and love with unparalleled skill and tenderness.

@mouse

Jul 15, 2024

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Reading for the Resistance! Leftist lit

A mix of classics and incredible recently published work Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine - Noura Erakat  Slow Down - Kohei Saito  The Great Displacement - Jake Bittle  Reconsidering Reparations - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Losing Earth: A Recent History - Nathaniel Rich  All We Can Save - edited by Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson As Long as Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Whitaker The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The Shock Doctrine- Naomi Klein Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex - edited by Matilda Bickers A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum - Françoise Vergès Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance - Shourideh Molavi The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina - Mercedes Biocca Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice - edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein And one extra for the season: It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - edited by Joe Vallese

@isthefruitstillgood

Oct 19, 2024

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French onion grilled cheese

Carmelize the damn onions in butter and beef broth. Low heat, 45 fuckin minutes. I’m not playin w you. Use gruyere cheese Make a compound butter with my girlies: thyme and rosemary and their dude garlic. Slather that butter on two pieces of sourdough. Both sides, I shouldn’t even have to tell you this. Cook up some bacon!!! Add a tomato. If you’re feeling froggy…truffle powder. Get to work.

@paydayl0an

Jan 25, 2024

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My radio show about the history of african american music

It’s black history month. Support your black friends and learn the origin of like every American popular musical genre everrr. Once I’m done with the 40 + genres, we’re diving into the diasporaaaa. And then at some point I’m talking cash shit about the summer of love and what was cooler than stinky trust fund kids…I mean hippies in San Francisco... I’ll give you some hints, same time period but across the bridge in Oakland. There’s also 1980s Washington DC, fuck it even 1960s Detroit. I just really fucking hate the Grateful Dead fans. Sorry. Not sorry. Perfect listening for cleaning the house and doing art projects. Tell a friend.

@paydayl0an

Feb 2, 2024

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Cure your own lox

The price of cured salmon is as bad as gas. Let’s do it for cheap and w our own flavor profiles. It’s like really fucking easy and no work at all. 1 slab of salmon (skin on or off who cares) Equal parts sea salt and brown sugar 1:1 ratio is important you can choose how much you wanna mix up. An assortment of herbs. I like to use the following: Cayenne pepper Fresh ground rosemary Fresh ground thyme Garlic powder Black pepper Truffle salt Crushed red peppers Zest of a lemon Zest of two limes Zest of three clementines Cinnamon Allspice If you decide to keep the skin on your salmon, score the skin. This means cut long slits diagonally in the skin so that the pink meat is exposed. Don’t cut so deep that you open the other side. Mix ALL your herbs together In your salt:sugar ratio TASTE YOUR BLEND BEFORE IT GOES ON YOUR SALMON. IS IT MISSING SOMETHING? IS IT JUST RIGHT? ARE THE HERBS POPPIN? Ok good. Now you’re gonna rinse that salmon slab in water and pat her dry. Two paths here: 1. You’re gonna place that salmon on a piece of plastic wrap that is on a cookie sheet. You’re going to start covering your slab in your seasoning mix, pretend like you’re at the beach and you’re covering up your sibling in sand. Once that side is covered you’re gonna flip her over and do the other side and then you’re going to wrap that mf in that plastic wrap nice and tight so that NO seasoning or salmon is leaking out. 2. You’re gonna grab a large freezer ziploc bag and put your salmon in it. From there, you will be pouring your seasoning mixture in the freezer bag covering the entire piece of fish until you can’t see it anymore. Keep that cookie sheet handy still Bc that ziploc bag is going right on that sheet. After you’ve chosen your path, you will place the cookie sheet in your fridge w a heavy cutting board on top, pressing the salmon. If you need more weight I recommend adding some canned goods on top or more veggies that are in the fridge (maybe a Tupperware container too) Sit in your fridge for AT LEAST 24 hours. If you do this before bed, flip the salmon over the next morning and let cure for like another 8 hours. When that 24 hours is up, there will be liquid, that’s normal. Scrape all that seasoning off, scrape as much as YOU want off. This is your recipe, babe. Slice up and enjoy w a bagel, on deviled eggs, a piece of avo toast like…whatEVER the heart desires. Please keep in mind that the longer you cure the more jerky like it will become. This means super TOUGH and SALTY. If you had skin on your salmon, slice that off and use it however you want. I like to cut it in longer strips, put it over the stove till it gets semi crispy and wrap it around rice. It’s ok if there’s still some salmon meat attached. That adds to the flavor. Happy cooking, you just saved about 30 bucks and you can have lox for more than two bagels ❤️

@paydayl0an

Jan 22, 2024