X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-nevada.md;h=ba1396374c30d46163e527c8dda7a42e5d9d9b87;hp=f109207d6c12b8601964e6ce32c755612ac48382;hb=HEAD;hpb=31d8f90e9e375b4f71c9cd28e64b9aca4ddf65dd diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-nevada.md b/content/drafts/book-review-nevada.md index f109207..ba13963 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-nevada.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-nevada.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ -Title: Book Review: Nevada +Title: Book Review: Imogen Binnie's Nevada Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: autogynephilia, review (book) Status: draft -> You sound so innocent -> All full of good intent -> You swear you know best -> But you expect me to -> Jump up on board with you -> And ride off into your delusional sunset +> _You sound so innocent +> All full of good intent +> You swear you know best +> But you expect me to +> Jump up on board with you +> And ride off into your delusional sunset_ > > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles @@ -17,12 +17,31 @@ I don't get why this book is so popular. I mean, I get why this book is so popular, but I'm not happy about it. -_Nevada_ is the story of 29-year-old trans woman Maria Griffiths, who w +_Nevada_ is the story of 29-year-old trans woman Maria Griffiths, who steals her girlfriend's car and goes on a cross-country road trip. +In Star City, Nevada, she meets an autogynephilic + +James isn't buying it. Then he steals her heroin and the book ends. + +https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-road/ + +https://archive.is/kDO75 + +https://github.com/ZoeyWolfe/have-you-read-nevada + +http://web.archive.org/web/20171013145452/http://haveyoureadnevada.com/nevada.pdf + +[...] the next time someone tell you AGP is rare And ask them, "Have you read _Nevada_?" - https://www.dailydot.com/irl/nevada-imogen-binnie-transgender/ + +Even the reviews of Nevada don't reveal the secret!!—okay, the New Yorker one sort of does ("erotic transvestite scenarios", "liking girls just in a totally impossible way") +https://www.vulture.com/article/profile-imogen-binnie-nevada.html +https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/the-invention-of-the-trans-novel-imogen-binnie-nevada + +> it doesn't feature nonbinary characters, and a similar novel written today would require them, not least for accuracy. +(2013 was less than a decade ago!!)