I’m currently finishing up Gideon the Ninth and, on the non-fiction side of things, I recently finished Reconstruction: The Battle For Democracy 1865-1876 by James S. Allen (which was published in the 1930s and inspired W.E.B. DuBois’s Black Reconstruction book).

You can purchase the reconstruction book here (and I implore you to do so or at least put it on your to-read list sometime).

Today’s discussion questions:

1. What do you plan to read?

2. What are your favorite publishers?

My answers:

I intend to read the Mao Zedong biography trilogy that’s being published in the United States by, I believe, either Cambridge or Harvard. Before you say anything: they’re Chinese-to-English translations and they were insulted by the web outlet Foreign Policy (a conservative U.S. foreign policy outlet) which is high praise to me.

As for my favorite publishers: International Publishers (CPUSA’s publishing arm) and Canut International Publishers (based in England and I believe they have an office in Turkey; they publish a lot of English translations of Chinese theoretical texts on Marxism-Leninism).

Talk about whatever, but do answer the title of the thread and the discussion questions, please. Thanks.

Also, shameless plug-in for a Discord server that me, BayArea415, and some good friends created:

https://discord.gg/qQmdd28CBR

Enjoy!