FYI, painting lovers: we're going to keep posting about this book because we love it too. ⁠ ⁠ 'The World We Make' is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter @asherald —whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose to fame after being chosen by former first lady @michelleobama to paint her official portrait for the @smithsoniannpg in Washington, DC, in 2018, becoming the first African American woman to receive this honor.⁠ ⁠ In addition to reproductions of Sherald’s recent works, the book—published to accompany her solo exhibition at @hauserwirth London in fall 2022—includes illustrations of earlier paintings, as well as an intimate glimpse into Sherald’s process and practice through a series of in-studio photographs. Newly commissioned texts include an art historical analysis of the artist’s work by Jenni Sorkin; a meditation on the politics and aesthetics of Sherald's portraiture by cultural scholar Kevin Quashie; and a conversation between Sherald and acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @asherald #amysherald #amysheraldtheworldwemake #theworldwemake @jennisorkin #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #michelleobamaportrait https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDZRAUOVdN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hot book alert! 'Amy Sherald: The World We Make' is NEW from @hauserwirth This stunning 196-page hardcover is the first major monograph on the renowned portraitist, who has said that her eyes "search for people who are and who have the kind of light that provides the present and the future with hope." ⁠ ⁠ Certainly, after the monumental challenges of the past few years—in America, and around the world—more of this direct, recognizable kind of hope is what we want and need. ⁠ ⁠ In his essay, "In Praise of Mere Beauty," Kevin Quashie takes the impact of Sherald's work further: "Amy Sherald’s work insists on mere beauty, a quiet, pulsing, just-there beauty. In advancing this phrase, I write in acknowledgment of Sherald’s artistic fineness, to praise her virtuosic skill as well as to gesture toward the sheer impact of encountering frame after frame of blackness: mere beauty as a proxy toward mere being, which has its own politic. Indeed, the very idea of mere beauty as idiom for viewing blackness responds to the world’s incapacity to appreciate blackness exactly that way. For me, a black viewer, there is something magical enacted in looking at this mere beauty, where I am saturated by seeing and not seeing myself, this process of abstracting and of multiplying that is at play in all art, even as the terms of antiblackness would seek to reduce black art—and black encounters with black art—to a lesser intelligence. Again, Amy Sherald’s aesthetic is one of mere beauty—a dynamic ordinary rendering of an approximation of a moment of life, a capable quality of light for such rendering, an invitation to try to behold blackness presented in such exquisite color."⁠ ⁠ Text by Jenni Sorkin, Kevin Quashie. Interview by Ta-Nehisi Coates.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @asherald #amysherald #amysheraldtheworldwemake #theworldwemake @jennisorkin https://www.instagram.com/p/CnhdkNrOgVr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So, we gonna tell you a little secret (in our best #tabithabrown voice....we are a little obsessed right now) our hardcover copies of The World We Make and The City Be Became are back in stock!!! You can order your copy on our @instagram, @facebook, @twitter, @tiktok or @shopify stores. Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com. And definitely check them out from your local #library, but don't keep and frame them! That would make your #librarian very sad 😔! Reposted from @deedireads Review: The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin . This is the much-anticipated follow-up to N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became, which tells the story of New York City’s essence coming to life in human avatars as they battle an opposing force intent on preventing the city’s birth. I really loved TCWB — especially as someone living in Jersey City (IYKYK) — and liked TWWM, although not as much as the first one. . The good stuff: A lot! Jemisin is clever and funny and so smart. I loved spending more time with these hilarious, big-hearted characters. And she just really knows how to write an exciting, engaging story. . I really enjoyed this duology and I think it’s 100% worth reading, especially if you’re from or have ever lived in NYC! #TheCityWeBecame #theworldwemake #TheGreatCitiesSeries #thegreatcitiesduology #NKJemisin #SistahScifi @hachettebooks @orbitbooks_us (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPkK20pkSA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

If you are on our email list, you know we are planning a Boxing Day Restock for all titles including signed copies of The World We Make signed by NK Jemisin. Reposted from @kaia.bookworld I cannot rave enough about the conclusion of NK Jemisin's new duology!! From the first book, I found the idea of people inhabiting the essence of cities very intriguing with the big bad trying to impose a discipline in the formation of new cities that human civilization defies by its very existence. In this second book, the battle between good and evil is nothing simple. We see families squabble and come together, tenative alliances form and reform, and strangers come together to protect what unites them. The most surprising element is the love story between two of the main characters that develops subtly and suddenly. I literally reread the last chapter five times just to soak up the unabashed joy of two people finding their way to each other in the aftermath of a cosmic conflict. Beautiful and tender and raw in a way I haven't read in a long time! The worldbuilding is brilliant and inventive and fresh as I've come to expect from this amazing author. The characters are nuanced and their relationships are explored with such empathy that I found myself sympathizing with someone I would never even talk to in real life. This then is the greatness of good writing - it opens up worlds within ourselves that would never be born in its absence. NK Jemisin continues to be an auto-buy for me and I will never stop recommending her work to everyone I meet!! QOTD: What are your holiday reading plans? 🎄🎄🎄 #theworldwemake #NKJemisin #afrofantasy #Afrofuturism #thegreatcitiesduology #TheGreatCitiesSeries (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmm8gP_rppE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I saved @nkjemisin’s #theworldwemake, which released earlier this month, as my Thanksgiving treat read. It’s narrated by the truly awesome @robinmilesvox. I can’t imagine any other writer pulling this series off. This series remains a love letter to NYC, in all its best and worst and crazy wonderful. #audiobookstagram #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #thecityborngreat #thecitywebecame #greatcitiesseries https://www.instagram.com/p/Clb3wgzv9da/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We have just three signed copies left of The World We Make before we restock in December! Signed copies of The City We Became are currently sold out. However you can sign up for back in stock notifications!! Please remember items including this title will not ship unilt 12/01 as we are awaiting additional bookplates. Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com. Reposted from @the.cat.reads My copy of The World We Make finally arrived!!!! I loved N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, and enjoyed the first book in this series too. The World We Make will be my next read for sure! #TheWorldWeMake #nkjemisin #TheCityWeBecame #thegreatcitiesduology #TheGreatCitiesSeries @hachetteus @orbitbooks_us (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOhGqZLppm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🔥🔥🔥 TODAY IS THE DAY 🔥🔥🔥 We are hosting a private virtual event for Sistah Scifi Siblings that purchased The World We Make by NK Jemisin from Sistah Scifi today at 5PM PST. If you purchased your book from us, you should have received an invitation from us on Monday. Please DM us if you did not receive it! If you would like to join, we still have a limited number of signed copies of The World We Make. Purchase before 1PM PST today to receive your invitation. Orders will ship 12/01!!! Image 1 & 2 reposted from @puzzling_penwing Wonderful mail day today from @sistahscifi! Image 3 reposted from @whatupsisi Collection Complete! Image 4 reposted from @dontgobrekkermyheart #nkjemisin #greatcitiesseries #TheWorldWeMake #TheCityWeBecame #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkyJqm2ry3t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Swipe for a special message from NK Jemisin. Remember say NO to Eldritch Horror! Reposted from @meggatzabookclub The World We Make by NK Jemisin Issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, profession, are front and center. Jemisin has previously said that she creates the world she wants to see - writing passionate Black women and queer normativity - and yet, set in contemporary New York, we are faced with the realities we also don’t want to see. In this duology, the Enemy is the destruction of everything the characters know. Here in our world, it can be too. I’m intentionally posting this on Election Day in the US to remind everyone to vote. Your vote does matter, on the large scale and especially in local elections. All reading is political, just as the personal is political. Sometimes the political is thinly veiled, and sometimes, like in The World We Make, it’s a reminder that the way we shape the world is in our own hands. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #nkjemisin #greatcitiesseries #greatcitiesduology #theworldwemake #thecitywebecame #sistahscifi @hachetteus @orbitbooks_us (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckt3-CoPCQ8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=