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393 - The Book Of Delights - nossa recomendação final!
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- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 0:10:05
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Nossa recomendação final é o Book Of Delights do Ross Gay. É um livro muito gostoso de ler e que faz com que pensemos sobre como enxergamos o nosso dia-a-dia. Press play! Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: the way Botan Rice Candy wrappers melt in your mouth, the volunteer crossing guard with a pronounced tremor whom he imagines as a kind of boat-woman escorting pedestrians across the River Styx, a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, pickup basketball games, the silent nod of acknowledgment between black p