“ Then When the Hurdy-Gurdy Man Came Singing Songs of Love” I think it’s gone well! Here are my favorites:Ī long ramble about the dangers of “story” and also playground rhymes for some reason Or, everybody talks about the Catholic imagination but nobody does anything about it….Īlso, I started a substack, basically for writing too incoherent to justify an article. (As with #4, you will need to register your email to read it, but lol I may as well say I hope you take the time to jump through that hoop if you’re interested in criminal punishment and its alternatives.)ġ- “ Velvet and Pus” at Commonweal–the “Catholic imagination” I discovered on conversion was the queer imagination I’d known before. Neither reform nor revolution but penance. Singer & Hemley).īest movies, 10 instead of five because I couldn’t bear to cut Great Freedom:ġ- Lawrence of Arabia (which I will probably write about in the New Year, finally.)Īlso of note: The Social Network, Fires on the Plain, Sleeping Beauty, Night Comes On The Strangers: Prey at Night Night of the Kings, Flatliners, His House The Hitcher Minari Project Nim, One Night in Miami, Itparts 1 & 2 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Hell Night The Night Porter Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (which I watched because of this podcast, btw–scroll down to February) Drunks, Monsoon Wedding, Dave Made a Maze Candyman(2021), Salt of the Earth Venom: Let There Be Carnage Days of Heaven, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Petite Maman, The Red & the White, The Stepfather.īest things I wrote for money: 5- “ The Violence of Reason: ‘Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985’”ģ- My long reported piece on anti-gay “conversion therapy” in Catholic settings.Ģ- My Tablet essay on, basically, the “violence interrupters” of late medieval Italy. Katzin) Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave (tr. Bernofsky) Joseph Roth, Tarabas: A Guest on Earth (tr. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, eds., Kink Samit Basu, Chosen Spirits Jeremias Gotthelf, The Black Spider (tr. Machkasov)Ģ- Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This.Īlso of note: Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections (plus my own historical note here) Joni Murphy, Double Teenage Phil Klay, Missionaries Carl Neville, Eminent Domain (this is the hon-mention I am most confident that a lot of my readers would find provocative… if you are down for experimental SF and the phrase “fully-medicated luxury communism” catches your attention, you should grab this) Stephen King, The Dark Half Ted Chiang, Exhalation and Other Stories R.O. Salvodon & Gavarini)ģ- Mariam Petrosyan, The Gray House (tr. A foundational book, both in the sense that we need to build upon it and in the sense that we need it to build upon.ĥ- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.Ĥ- Nina Bouraoui, Tomboy(tr. Real lgbtq people, and what they experienced among the people who say that God is Love. ANYWAYS Bridget Eileen Rivera’s Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church has a fair amount that I loved, a fair amount that I disagreed with (or honestly, a lot of it was not about my personal opinion imho, she is coming from a different set of church commitments and there are things here to which as a Catholic I can’t assent, which is a normal thing to happen, lol), a small amount I found undertheorized… and one absolutely enormous, necessary thing, which is just the stories of actual real people. I read Philippe Girard’s Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life, and if I’d remembered it, it would’ve gone here.ģ- Alice Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.Ģ- Nicholas Griffin, The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980.ġ- Amy Richlin, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy.Īlso of note: John Edgar Wideman, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File.ĮTA: I forgot Bridget’s book!!! /o\ Because I’ve only read the draft–should read the final version next year. 5- Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350 – 550 AD.Ĥ- Mitchell Duneier, Slim’s Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity.ĮTA: OK, so I couldn’t find the little book where I wrote down what I read in the first part of the year, & forgot various items.
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