Nov 19, 2022·1 reply
krishna boundi wouldnt recommend FIRE!! itself as that was just a magazine and there was only one issue. its just that everyone who worked on it went on to have really interesting literary careers.
from most of those names here's recommendations from each;
Wright:
The Outsider
Uncle Tom's Children
Native Son (@)
The God that Failed (@)Ellison:
(already said invisible man so leaving that off but yeah thats the big one)
JuneteenthToomer:
Cane (@)Thurman:
The Blacker The Berry (yes that is where it comes from)
Harlem: A ForumBennett:
I admittedly know the least about her work outside of "Wedding Day". I think she was mainly a contributor to other people's works so you may need to search her up specifically for those contributions.Cullen:
he was mainly a poet and langston hughes collaborator so you'd mainyl want to look into his compilations in things like ColorMcKay:
Home to Harlem
Banana Bottom
If We Must Die (@)Schuyler:
Black No More (@)
outside of the above you're likely gonna have trouble finding his other work as it was mainly essays and he was politically schizophrenicHurston:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (@)
Dust Tracks on a Road
Mules & MenFauset:
Plum Bunnote i havent fully read all of these but im at least familiar. if not vaguely, with them from a historical/importance angle. anything ive personally read i've added a @ next to
Just stashed this in my note on future reading material, thank you so much
Been needing to dive into black literature for a long long time now so this is extremely helpful
- Nov 19, 2022·2 repliesMrMudManMood
Just stashed this in my note on future reading material, thank you so much
Been needing to dive into black literature for a long long time now so this is extremely helpful
i'd recommend The God That Failed to everyone in the thread who hasn't already read it, really interesting compilation of essays even outside of Wright's contributions
- Nov 19, 2022·1 replykrishna bound
i'd recommend The God That Failed to everyone in the thread who hasn't already read it, really interesting compilation of essays even outside of Wright's contributions
if the DSA was abolished and replaced with this the US would be communist tomorrow
Nov 19, 2022·2 repliesDamn
- Nov 19, 2022·1 reply
Bruh
- Nov 19, 2022·1 replyLein
Damn
https://twitter.com/computer_atulya/status/1593351364851163136"your picket line is totally valid and all but im sorry, im non-neurotypical and if i dont have my frappe its gonna be tough day. more power to your cause tho"
- Nov 19, 2022Lein
Bruh
https://twitter.com/IAmPettyRich/status/1593673907067793408
- Nov 19, 2022·3 replieskrishna bound
"your picket line is totally valid and all but im sorry, im non-neurotypical and if i dont have my frappe its gonna be tough day. more power to your cause tho"
- Nov 19, 2022https://twitter.com/_bahhumbug/status/1593627870332698626Lein
- Nov 19, 2022·4 replies
Americans are fat and eat burgers and are evil
- Nov 19, 2022·1 replyLein
Americans are fat and eat burgers and are evil
- Nov 19, 2022
had to re-read wright's section of the god that failed after mentioning it above and even going back after a few years it still doesn't disappoint
Nov 19, 2022https://twitter.com/_bahhumbug/status/1593627870332698626Lein
- Nov 19, 2022·1 replykrishna bound
if the DSA was abolished and replaced with this the US would be communist tomorrow
Hard as bricks
- Nov 19, 2022Lein
Damn
https://twitter.com/computer_atulya/status/1593351364851163136Had someone in a group chat on this earlier in the week except he was more brazen with on it...on some sorry but I gotta get lunch!
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Nov 19, 2022https://twitter.com/_bahhumbug/status/1593627870332698626LeinLmfaoooo
- Nov 19, 2022Lein
Americans are fat and eat burgers and are evil
- Nov 19, 2022https://twitter.com/KaseyC33/status/1593609108342595586krishna bound
LMAO
- Nov 19, 2022Lein
Americans are fat and eat burgers and are evil
- Nov 19, 2022MrMudManMood
Hard as bricks
the most interesting part of wright's section in the god that failed is how little things we now see as modern cultural war battles have really changed
the part where he's describing a vaudeville theater run by a middle aged white woman that took white-written plays and replaced all the white characters with black people and moved the setting from southern america to africa to try to sell the play to black audiences gets me every time
- Nov 19, 2022·3 replies
Straight out of a cumtown bit I swear
- Nov 19, 2022·1 replyLein
Straight out of a cumtown bit I swear
https://twitter.com/footballdaily/status/1593918249464254465 
Nov 19, 2022https://twitter.com/naser__tamimi/status/1593927822346752001krishna bound - Nov 19, 2022Lein
Straight out of a cumtown bit I swear
https://twitter.com/footballdaily/status/1593918249464254465
Nov 19, 2022·1 replyLeinAmericans are fat and eat burgers and are evil
i like burgers tho