I’m currently finishing up Gideon the Ninth and, on the non-fiction side of things, I recently finished Reconstruction: The Battle For Democracy 1865-1876 by James S. Allen (which was published in the 1930s and inspired W.E.B. DuBois’s Black Reconstruction book).

You can purchase the reconstruction book here (and I implore you to do so or at least put it on your to-read list sometime).

Today’s discussion questions:

  1. What do you plan to read?

  2. What are your favorite publishers?

My answers:

I intend to read the Mao Zedong biography trilogy that’s being published in the United States by, I believe, either Cambridge or Harvard. Before you say anything: they’re Chinese-to-English translations and they were insulted by the web outlet Foreign Policy (a conservative U.S. foreign policy outlet) which is high praise to me.

As for my favorite publishers: International Publishers (CPUSA’s publishing arm) and Canut International Publishers (based in England and I believe they have an office in Turkey; they publish a lot of English translations of Chinese theoretical texts on Marxism-Leninism).

Talk about whatever, but do answer the title of the thread and the discussion questions, please. Thanks.

Also, shameless plug-in for a Discord server that me, BayArea415, and some good friends created:

https://discord.gg/qQmdd28CBR

Enjoy!

  • simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I fucking loved Gideon the Ninth. The second book was enjoyable, but the first really scratched an itch for me.

    I’m currently reading Charlaine Harris’s Shakespeare’s Landlord, and just finished Bardugo’s Ninth House.

    On the nonfiction side, I just finished William Carlos Williams’ Paterson, and I’m starting T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland and other poems”.

    I’m not sure what I’ll read next, but I’m looking at Jack London’s Burning Daylight.

    I don’t think I have a favorite publisher, all the theory I read is online pdfs or just from marxists.org.