Ep. 55 The Art of Performance with Gabrielle Civil
Today we have performance artist, author, poet, and professor Gabrielle Civil on the podcast to discuss the creative process, books that bite, overachieving Black girls, and books in translation. We spend time discussing Performance Memoir as a genre and we hear about Gabrielle's books Swallow the Fish and Experiments in Joy.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Swallow the Fish by Gabrielle Civil
Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Old in Art Schoolby Nell Painter
I'm So Fine by Khadijah Queens
When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
The Island of Eternal Love by Daina Chaviano
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Children of Vengeance and Virtue by Tomi Adeyemi
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliot
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Sphinx by Anne Garréta
The Bridge of Beyond by Simon Schwarz-Bart
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potock
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Color Theory edited by Maya Gomez and Vreni Michelini-Castillo
No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh
So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
How to Complete and Survive A Doctoral Dissertation by David Sternberg
My Body, The Buddhist by Deborah Hay
English is Broken Here by Coco Fusco
A Field Guide for Female Interrogators by Coco Fusco
Out of Order, Out of Sight by Adrian Piper
Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhai
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhai
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea
The Creative Tarot by Jessa Crispin
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Germinal by Emilé Zola
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Elliott
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Madame Bouvary by Gustave Flaubert
The Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison
Yes Means Yes by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Dumbo by RH Disney
Wild Beauty by Ntozake Shange
The Elements of Style by William Strunken Jr. and E. B. White
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
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Les Miserables (Claude-Michel Schönberg,1980)
Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1982)
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