October 17, 2022

Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, October 17th

Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #21: “This Is America” by Childish Gambino / Donald Glover

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

Read Reviews:

Rolling Stone: Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’ Is a Nightmare We Can’t Afford to Look Away From https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-glovers-this-is-america-is-a-nightmare-we-cant-afford-to-look-away-from-630177/

Pitchfork: Childish Gambino “This Is America” https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/childish-gambino-this-is-america/

Spin: The Cynicism Of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” https://www.spin.com/2018/05/donald-glover-this-is-america-review/

Revisit QW#21 and add other thoughts. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

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I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman * The Godfather - Mario Puzo * The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid * Scythe - Neal Shusterman * All That Shines - Ellen Hagan * Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers * Murderabilia - Harold Schechter * The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck * Enemies in the Orchard - Dana Vanderlugt * Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov * The Secret History - Donna Tartt * Projekt 1065 - Alan Gratz * Milk & Honey - Rupi Kaur * The Chain - Adrian McKinty * Never Lie - Freida McFadden * Home Body - Rupi Kaur * The Climber - Shin-ichi Sakamoto & Yoshiro Nabeda * Zodiac - Romina Russell * Every Day - David Levithan * November 9 - Colleen Hoover * A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer * The Fault in Our Stars - John Green * My Broken English - Quiara Alegria Hudes * Frankenstein - Mary Shelley * Audrey, Wait! - Robin Benway * The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks * The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - Suzanne Collins * The Summer of Bitter and Sweet - Jen Ferguson * The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*#! - Mark Manson * All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque * The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur * The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland * Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng * The Echo Room - Parker Peevyhouse * My Father the Panda Killer - Jamie Jo Hoang * What Lies in the Woods - Kate Alice Marshall * The Midnight Library - Matt Haig * Nightfall - Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski * A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson * Dear John - Nicholas Sparks * The Giver - Lois Lowry * Michigan Vs. the Boys- Carrie S. Allen * We Are Where the Nightmares Go - C. Robert Cargill * Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * In Cold Blood - Truman Capote * Nyxia - Scott Reintgen * The Lies I Tell - Julie Clark * The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins * Writing My Wrongs - Shaka Senghor * Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros * Paper Towns - John Green * 13 Days of Midnight - Leo Hunt * Heroine - Mindy McGinnis * The Turn of the Screw - Henry James * The Martian- Andy Weir * I Hunt Killers - Barry Lyga *

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