Welcome to the Book Nook! The weekly thread for all book nerds on The Avocado. This is the place to talk about books you’re currently reading, discuss genres, ask for recommendations, and post serious literary criticism.
This week’s prompt: What are your favorite novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books by Black writers or artists?
Ideas for prompts are always welcome!
Today’s literary birthdays:
Esteban Manuel de Villegas (1589), Spanish poet (RIP 1669)
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (1626, AKA Madame de Sévigné), French writer of correspondence that was collected and published (RIP 1696)
Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Finnish poet, wrote the lyrics for the Finnish national anthem (RIP 1877)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), French novelist and critic (RIP 1907)
C.E. Brock (1870), English illustrator (RIP 1938)
William S. Burroughs (1914), American novelist, short story writer and essayist (RIP 1997)
Andrew Greeley (1928), American novelist (RIP 2013)
P.J. Vatikiotis (1928), Greek-American historian (RIP 1997)
B.S. Johnson (1933), English novelist and poet (RIP 1973)
K.S. Nissar Ahmed (1936), Egyptian poet and translator (RIP 2020)
David Weisner (1956), American illustrator and writer of children’s books
All information courtesy of Wikipedia
Posting pictures is fine as long as they are book related, but I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone. Thanks, and happy commenting!