The clubb marches on! Apologies for the late notice, but the Mudd Up Book Clubb will meet two weeks from today on September 8th, in Tangier Morocco. We’ll be talking about Juan Goytisolo’s Exiled from Almost Everywhere (original title: Exiliado de Aquà y de Allá). Goytisolo is a complicated figure — the Spaniard has lived … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: TANGIER EDITION
[screenshot from the June Mudd Up Book Clubb’s Ustream] The Mudd Up Book Clubb continues! Every six weeks or so we gather (preferably on a rooftop) to talk about a good muddy book, stream the conversation so The Internet can participate, then eat delicious food. The Clubb is meant to be a realtime feast-for-the-senses thing, … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: MADRID EDITION
As announced in this post, the Mudd Up Book Clubb kicks off this month. We have a time and location now: It’s going down on Monday June 27th, at 7pm on the rooftop near rue Jean Jaures in Gauthier, Casablanca. It’s a particularly appropriate place to sit down and discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s Nekropolis, a … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: JUNE 27th CASABLANCA EDITION
The idea is simple: every six weeks or so we gather somewhere for informal talk centered around a good muddy book, then go eat delicious food. We’ll have a live Ustream feed so Cousin Internet and Miss Larry Antitroll can participate. The inaugural edition will convene on a Casablanca rooftop, around late afternoon/sunset, about six … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: CASABLANCA EDITION
Music is bringing me to Mexico City this weekend. I’ll have time to dig around some of the megacity’s great bookstores in addition to parrandeando. So, dear reader, can you recommend me some good books to check out? My Spanish-language contemporary fiction bookshelf has a lot of dudes in it — much as I love … Continue reading LIBROS ASADOS: Book Burning Society of the Americas
The Mudd Up Book Clubb exists increasingly offline, but I shouldn’t let us flesh-and-blood meetup ghosts have all the syllabi, so — time to announce our next two selections, novels by Rita Indiana Hernandez (yes, that Rita) & G. Willow Wilson. The Mudd Up Book Clubb’s first selection of 2013 is G. Willow Wilson’s remarkable … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: ALIF THE UNSEEN & RITA INDIANA
This month’s Mudd Up Book Clubb selection is Patrik OuÅ™ednÃk’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, and we’re meeting next Sunday, September 16, to talk about it. Europeana is a brilliant, simple/sly/hypnotic little book, which of course isn’t simple at all, so few things are. Rather incredibly, the New York Public Library files … Continue reading BOOK CLUBB: Patrik OuÅ™ednÃk’s Europeana
I’m a fan of judging books by their covers. Check this one out: Awesome, right? Our August Mudd Up Book Clubb selection is Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber. The novel kicks off during Carnival on a Caribbean colonized planet, where the AIs speak patois, and expands from there. Folklore from Hopkinson’s native Caribbean meshes with a … Continue reading BOOK CLUBB: NALO HOPKINSON’S MIDNIGHT ROBBER
The last Mudd Up Book Clubb meetup was the most special to date, as The Slynx’s author Tatyana Tolystaya herself showed up unexpectedly. Translator Jamey Gambrell was able to join us as well. INCREDIBLE. To discuss one of my favorite books with its author & translator was a rare treat. + + + [Taussig in … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: TAUSSIG’S MY COCAINE MUSEUM
[ТатьÑÌна ÐикиÌтична ТолÑтаÌÑ] For this month’s Mudd Up Book Clubb, we have a very special selection — Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx. It is the only novel I’ve ever read which is both laugh-out-loud funny *and* has given me nightmares. Amazing. Some people call it a dystopia, and true – The Slynx does take place in … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: MAY EDITION – TOLSTAYA’S THE SLYNX