Rachel Cleves

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Well-fed historian. Author of UNSPEAKABLE; CHARITY AND SYLVIA: and REIGN OF TERROR IN AMERICA. One half of @RASinn, author of A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY coming out in summer 2023. Working on histories of food and sex from the 18th century to the present day. Professor at University of Victoria in British Columbia. If you like old book covers check me out at @BookJacketJackpot
#histodons
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Rachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
Aram SinnreichNov 27, 2022
I've been a recording artist for 25 years, but this is the first time one of my own songs has been on a Top 50 radio chart (Euro indie). Not gonna lie, I am super chuffed for @dunia and myself. #music #radio #independentmusic #indiemusic #ska #worldmusic https://meiweb.it/2022/11/23/nuova-euro-indie-music-chart-in-testa-billy-gaines-4/
Nuova Euro Indie Music Chart: in testa Billy Gaines – MEI – Meeting degli Indipendenti

Rachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
#Chautauqua, the famous summer arts and philosophy resort in western NY, founded as a Bible camp, was also apparently “crawling with queers” in the early 1950s. Here’s Michael Rumaker‘s description of Chautauqua in 1951, when he was 18. Yes, he lost his “gay virginity” (his words) at Chautauqua that summer. Has anyone written a queer history of Chautauqua? #queerhistory #histodons #LGBTQ
Rachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
Gary BarkerNov 19, 2022
Weekend Fun
“Portraits” Saul Steinberg, 1958-1962. When photographer Inge Morath went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask which he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg's masks. #saulsteinberg #bnwphotography #masks #party
Rachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
In 1951, Michael Rumaker heard that Black Mountain College was “a hotbed of communists and homosexuals.” Naturally, he decided at once to go there. #gayhistory #BlackMountain
Rachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
Next up on the reading list: a memoir about the experimental “Black Mountain College” by Michael Rumaker, the gay novelist. Black Mountain was apparently notoriously queer. My grandfather wanted to study sculpture at Black Mountain after he graduated from Harvard right before WW2, but his father, an immigrant grocery store owner, begged him not to become an artist. #queerhistory #academia #LGBTQ
Show threadRachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
Also probably worth confessing that I am the exact age of the main characters and many of the conversations they have are conversations I've had and so even though I am not a video game designer - or a techie of any sort - I found the characters intensely relatable.
Show threadRachel ClevesNov 27, 2022
Also, a quick FYI, this book is about video game designers and has a lot about video games in it, naturally. But you don't need to be a gamer to enjoy this book. I am not a gamer (TBH video games give me vertigo), and I found the discussion of the games and their creation totally enthralling.
Rachel ClevesNov 27, 2022

It's a great feeling to have loved a book so much you want to tell everyone about it. That's how much I loved Gabrielle Zevin's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." The characters are flawed, complex, and sympathetic. The relationships are dynamic and multidimensional. The ideas about life, tragedy and games are thoughtful. The portrait of a creative collaboration is exciting. A key plot point I predicted is handled in an original and moving way. Read it!

@bookstadon

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/690750/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-by-gabrielle-zevin/9780735243347

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Penguin Random House Canada

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality."Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the best books I've ever read." —John Green

Penguin Random House Canada
Rachel ClevesNov 26, 2022
Critical CupcakeNov 25, 2022
Mt. Rainier casting a shadow upwards across the sky.
Rachel ClevesNov 26, 2022
Show threadEmily Conroy-KrutzNov 22, 2022
Relatedly: meet my new buddy. It’s going to be really sad when someone eats him.