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Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt by Brontez Purnell

This book says “A Memoir in Verse” on its cover but it DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU DON’T “GET” POETRY OR HATE IT EVEN. This book will change your mind. This is the funniest most fucked up book you will ever be lucky enough to read. Seriously do yourself a favor and get it because I can’t describe seeing a sunset while having an orgasm anymore than I can describe this book.

@kathleen-hanna

May 9, 2024

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the bell jar

try and wish as i might to dislodge the opening sentence from the corner of permanency of my brain, it won't shift. because it's just that good. so delicious and juicy and evocative and rhythmic that every time i peel open the well-loved, well-worn, well-aged copy of the book, i am unable to stop reading at just that first line. 'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.' at once it's hot and sticky and bad things are in the air and it's all whimsical and meandering and at lost. i am there on the sidewalk, melting into the cement, unsure of it all.

@redlentilsoupgirl

Feb 17, 2025

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MIKE BRODIE

I love photo books and have spent hundreds of hours staring at them since learning they existed at the bard college library about a decade ago. But I’m not sure I’ve ever been so emotionally affected by anyone else’s work. His new book “Failing“ completely floored me and his first book “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” is almost as good too. Dark shit tho be prepared

@uncle_hesh

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Apr 10, 2025

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earth angel by madeline cash

Surprised no one’s mentioned it yet, especially because I think Cash was tapped for a rec list, but this one floored me when it came out about a year ago. Funny. Short. Unpredictable. And if you need more convincing, it has blurbs from the likes of Tao Lin, Chelsea Hodson and Garielle Lutz. Enough said. Start Reading.

@bookboi

Apr 20, 2024

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Mk.gee

Shout out to Blackbird Spyplane for putting me on to this guy in their most recent newsletter. Don’t know much about him other than that he recently performed on the Jimmy Kimmel show so he must be on the rise. Listened to him on the way to and from work and let’s just say I WAS VIBING.

@bookboi

Apr 26, 2024

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How Did it end? (Polly platt, the invisible woman, Episode 10)

Karina Longworth’s podcast is usually pretty hit or miss for me, but her season on Polly Platt, the legendary production designer, hit on every level a podcast can function on. Informative. Revelatory. And ultimately heartbreaking, in this season finale episode where Platt, (the connecting thread between filmmakers like Peter Bogdanovich, James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson) falls into the dustbin of film history. It’s the only podcast episode that’s brought me to tears and maybe it’ll do the same for you, if that’s what you’re looking for.

@bookboi

Apr 29, 2024