Julian Brave NoiseCat

Olivia Lange's The Silver Book, which is an incredibly ingenious documentary novel about Italian cinema in the 70s, Pasolini, Fellini, and like their films, it's kind of visually amazing and breathtaking and slightly perverse.

Fia Lenarduzzi's The Tower, which is a kind of essay combined with memoir and a kind of meditation on what we need from the past and how slippery the past turns out to be and how we might still need it even if we got it wrong.

Julian Brave Noisecats, excellent name, We Survived the Night, which is a testimony and a kind of witness statement and a sort of monument.

to the survival of the indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest of North America.

Madeleine Thien's The Book of Records, climate refugees from some as-yet-not-happened catastrophe, find themselves in a placeless sort of place where they are mixing with the survivors of medieval and modern ordeals from the past.

Maybe now I, I can also say maybe coyote is my, is a spiritual guide.

[laughs] I s- because I was reading this book by Julian Brave NoiseCat recently, and, and he really talks, he writes about coyote as, you know, he's very wise, but he's also very tricksterish.

He plays these tricks on people and on himself, and then somehow he ends up making mistakes, but he ends up making things right at the same time.

So he's all of these things, you know?

It was on all the end of the year lists.

We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat.

This is an award-winning collection of personal essays from an Indigenous author and, I believe, director.

And Esperance by Adam Oyebnji.