Mira Corpora

6 best books like Mira Corpora (Jeff Jackson): Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, Sacred Heart, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, Taipei, Juliet the Maniac, Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest

Author	Hanif Abdurraqib
ISBN	1477316485

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially...

Sacred Heart

Author	Liz Suburbia
ISBN	1606998412

(Between 3 and 4 stars.)

Spoiler alert! This review reveals things that happen in the book.

Though "revealing" things in a review of this book is unlikely to diminish the pleasure of reading it.

Sometimes I like to read reviews before reading a book and I doubt that would have...

Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century

Author	Daniel Hernandez
ISBN	1416577033

MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...

Taipei

Author	Tao Lin
ISBN	0307950174

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into...

Juliet the Maniac

Author	Juliet Escoria
ISBN	1612197590

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illness and her battle toward understanding and recovery

Ambitious, talented 14-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon...

Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre

Author	Darwyn Cooke
ISBN	1401238920

The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all-time are finally here: BEFORE WATCHMEN! For over twenty years, the back stories of the now-iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's landmark graphic novel had been the subject of much debate and theorizing....