culture consumed (October, 2018)

books

• 9 books for adults/teens:
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    
  • There There by Tommy Orange
    
  • Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
    
  • Criptiques ed. Caitlin Wood
    
  • Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us by Emily Horowitz
    
  • Wonder Woman. Vol. 6, Children of the Gods by James Robinson
    
  • Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (feminist sci-fi bookclub) & its prequel The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
    
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (young adult)
• 19 picturebooks, including:
  • 11 Lil' Libros

live theatre

• ASP's Macbeth in a modern verse translation by Migdalia Cruz
  
• ASP's Equivocation by Bill Cain -- imagines Shakespeare commissioned to write a play about the failed Gunpowder Plot

tv

• finished S2 of Marvel's Luke Cage on Netflix [2.10-2.13]
  
• caught up on The Good Place (last 2 episodes of S1 and all 13 episodes of S2, plus all of S3 that has aired so far -- 3.01-3.05)
  
• the new Charmed [I'm up to date: 1.01-1.03]
  
• the first 2 episodes of the new Sabrina on Netflix [The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 1.01-1.02]

movies

• Sony/Marvel's Venom (twice)

music

• We Are the Halluci Nation by A Tribe Called Red
  
• Last night's Frida Kahlo class was about Mexican music, so we watched a lot of YouTube and now I have a favorite conductor: Alondra de la Parra

November ~poll: Indigenous Art 2018

New month, new poll. This is what I wrote on the board at work:

November is Native American Heritage Month.

A reminder that heritage isn't just history, below is a list of some Indigenous art that came out THIS YEAR.

Use exclamation marks (!) to indicate what you're excited to check out, and check marks (✓) to indicate what you'd personally recommend.

It's not easy to approximate that interactivity in an online poll, so instead I'm just giving you the list that's on the board at work (with IndieBound links for the books) and you're free to comment or not as you wish.

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adult fiction
There There by Tommy Orange
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

young adult fiction
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth

memoir
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

poetry
Junk by Tommy Pico
Bright Raft in the Afterweather by Jennifer Elise Foerster
Instruments of the True Measure by Laura Da'

music
SAVivor by Gabriel Night Shield