Perry Genovesi 🍐

Hand w book and cat

It’s about the Labor, Civil, & Welfare Rights movements. The welfare chapter was a deep dive into an org’s collapse. It compares legislative and lobbying tactics with the disruptive, mass force events our class is capable of. A useful book 9.1/10

Boy with book and cat

It’s essays from the ‘60’s-‘80s by the former CP leader on theoretical issues, current events, & racism. His Lenin paraphrase that bringing a racist around to a point of non-racism (before even anti-racism) is a victory stuck in my head. A lot of quotables for sure. & peep that cover! 10/10

Booth award

Scaffold magazine has honored my story “5 Metaphors for Greg Ginn’s Guitar Tone on Black Flag’s Damaged (1981)” with inclusion into their Best 50 Micro Writings of 2025! Thanks to Booth for publishing & @mattjakubowski.bsky.social for letting me know I’d made this list or I would’ve missed it lol

Boy with book and cat

A young queer woman deals w/ lovers. It’s intercut w/ news stories of crocodiles, some in human suits, living in Taiwan under scrutiny. It was angsty, reminded me of Catcher & Wallflower where feelings get excavated in clumsy but passionate words. I confused the characters sometimes 6/10

Boy with book and cat

It compares socialism to the anarchy & planlessness of capitalism. Diagrams abound. Takedowns of economic philosophers of the day (written in 1912). I wasn’t sure if she was agreeing or disagreeing w/ Marx half the time lol. Later chapters that told the story of imperialism were my fav 8/10

Boy w book and cat

It's about creatures that feed on ideas & the gov agency in charge of containing them. Guns & gore. The writing about thought-eating had me glued. I liked characters forgetting their husbands & wives & where doors were located. Events like a planet-destroying explosions felt low-stakes tho 8.2/10

Books

Over COVID lockdown I began this ridiculous art project of posting reviews of everything I read. As we all side eye this so called ceasefire, here’s another year of sharing my fav first-time (fiction) reads of 2025

Books

Over COVID lockdown I began this ridiculous art project of posting reviews of everything I read. As we all side eye this so called ceasefire, here’s another year of sharing my fav first-time (nonfiction) reads of 2025

Boy w book and cat

It’s the story of Davis’s time in trial & prison & her childhood & college & philosophy & politics. I liked how setting mtg agendas stressed her out. She dealt w/ so much guilt that people weren't paying attention to other political prisoners as much as they paid attention to her, a celebrity 10/10

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Boy w book and cat

A boy enters a learning institute/private school. He meets friends & something sparks btw him & the headmistress. The best parts were his thoughts & witty one-liners to himself. I started out loving it. But the plot & even what I liked about it wore on me. It’s very short though 7.3/10

Boy with book and cat

A guy tries surviving a vampire holocaust. It’s set in the 70s so I thought it was written then but it’s actually the ‘50s! Feels not dated. The hero’s constant women cravings bored me. Each twist surprised me. An amateur phlebotomist’s take on vampires. Unfortunately the stories were weaker 8/10

Boy w book and cat

School Read. It's about the Rwandan genocide. The descriptions of each tribe was meant to blend them together so you know how random and anonymous this tragedy was. The author wrote from interesting angles - interviews with people at a bar, etc. 8/10

Boy w book and cat

The sentences of “the only untranslatable English writer," are worth price of admission. Plotless love stories w/ nouns & verbs mixed like you've never seen. I do a writing exercise jumbling nouns & verbs surreally & I've published 1 story this way. But it'd take eons to craft a true GL story 8.7/10

Boy w book and cat

School read. Felt like an update of 1 of my favs, Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. The end was specific, talking abt taxes & readings. But the tips are super useful: putting characters in a locked room, starting with emotions at 40%. Using 2 characters who want a glass of water to explain drama 8/10

Boy w book and cat

It's Baker's phone s3x novel. A friend told me Clinton gifted this to Lewinski- I found 0 truth to the legend. My fav parts were descriptions of turning up speakers as songs faded & little noticings. It's all dialogue. The ending was disappointing but there was nowhere else for the story to go 8/10

Boy w book and cat

A woman comes back into a thirtysomething’s life and wants to restart an affair. I loved it. I wished I knew more about the historical context of the setting. The ending felt a little like a cop out but I don’t want to spoil anything. It’s my second Turgenev and I think I love this guy 8.2/10

Boy w book and cat

It’s abt these furby-ish pets w/ cameras in their eyes. Someone watches from home & controls the furby & another person lives w/ it. I wasnt super attached to the characters. Nothing beat the opener. I think Schweblin tried to exhaust all plots that could come from these toys w/ mixed results 7.9/10

Oh my goodness, I just saw the news — thank you thank you @gonelawn.bsky.social editors! I’m bowled over by this nomination ✨✨✨✨

TOP & REASONS WHY ICE IS SPOTIFY'S #1 FAN 1) Spotify is running ICE ads in between your favorite songs 2) Spotify claims that ICE recruitment ads DID NOT violate it's ad policies 3) While ICE terrorizes communities, Spotify is helping boost their recruitment efforts 4) Spotify would rather be wrapped in complicity to ICE's terror than refuse ICE ad money indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (or deserve) free advertising for Spotify Wrapped: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Boy w book and cat

They’re 100 1-page “novels” though I guess we’d call them flash fictions legally. Published in '79 by a member of this Italian Avant-garde group, Gruppo 63. Plots include classic dragon and princes, dreams within dreams, etc. Not every one was a winner, but most left me smiling 9.7

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

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Boy with book and cat

School read. It’s the story of a guy’s life told by his friend. He loses his parents in the Holocaust & gets brought up by strangers & tries to learn about his past. It’s super slow w/ lyrical language & lush color words. The writing on memory and time having banks like a river was cool 5.4/10

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Boy with book and cat

Re-read. It’s plotless thoughts on the page. Reading it this time (I bought my own copy,) the back cover + art tricked me into thinking I was missing a big story. A light horror underpins all of these. The feminist-leaning scenes were my fav & the scenes I remembered best from 10 years ago 10/10

Boy w book and cat

Two novelists meet by chance. I loved the interactions btw the heroes & rooted for them – their dialogue was like the Spiderman cartoon from the '90s (a good thing). They were always quipping at each other. It felt fresh. I enjoyed the heroine, how she thought every slight was a crisis 7.6/10

Boy w book and cat

A rich dunce plays matchmaker & everything backfires. Other plots include peeping toms, angry french chefs, bad halloween costumes. Lots of good language jokes but a but dated. I love that Wooster thinks he's a hero who everyone looks up to. But the fact that he's the punching bag is delightful 7/10

Boy eating with Ink Pantry logo

Cool tidings: Welsh litmag Ink Pantry is publishing another story of mine! If you’re still in the mood for spooky Halloween vibes, this tale will be your jam. In the meantime, read my Philly-set downer, Sh*t Lottery, from their March ‘23 archives: tinyurl.com/inkpantry