Tochi Onyebuchi

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Looksmaxxing, noodles-no-packet, 6-7...when did we get here? Me, Alia Dastigir, and Cory Doctorow, moderated by the one and only Sarah Jeong, might have some thoughts. Apr. 30, 6.30pm at The Strand, tix available at the PEN World Voices Festival website. Come for the wordsmaxxing, stay for the aura farming.

Over at @the_rumpus , the inestimable @kuangrf and I sat down to chat about the Internet, Scorsese, God, and literature, basically all the things. It was, as expected with her, the best conversation I've had in a long, long time. Go check it out.

Quite the company for #Racebook. Honored.

✊🏾 Black history doesn't just live in the past. It lives in the stars. @bookriot put together a list of sci-fi and nonfiction books set in space by Black authors, and we curated every title available at Sistah Sci-Fi so you can add them to your shelf right now. Swipe through and let's get into it. 🛸 📚👉🏾 Binti: The Complete Trilogy by @nnediokorafor 📚👉🏾 The Starseekers by @nicolegloverwrites 📚👉🏾 Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler 📚👉🏾 The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa 📚👉🏾 An Unkindness of Ghosts by @rivers.solomon 📚👉🏾 War Girls by @treize64 📚👉🏾 Infinitum by @dieselfunk 📚👉🏾 Black Star by @gloverftw and illustrated by @joviellety 📚👉🏾 The Disordered Cosmos by @chanda.prescod.weinstein 📚👉🏾 Life on Other Planets by @aomawalshields These are all available at , and some are stocked as signed copies. 🤎 📚 Grab your copy at / bookshop.org/shop/SistahScifi or request it from your favourite #library. #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #Africanfuturism #BlackSFF #SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #BlackAuthors #BookRiot #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFutures #SFFCommunity #IndieBookstore

One last present under the tree, a gift from my friends at @roxanegaybooks . And what a gift indeed! Swipe to see the loot this box was filled with. 📚 📕The Hitch by Sara Levine (@hitchface ) out 1/13 is a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world. 📗The Answer is in the Wound by Kelly Sundberg (@ksundber ) out now is an intimate, linked, lyrical essay collection focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma and PTSD on survivors—challenging a culture in which violence against women is normalized and illuminating the nonlinear, complex nature of recovery. 📘Racebook by Tochi (@treize64 ) out now is a memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship between race and the Internet has changed in his three decades online. 📙Ravishing by Eshani Surya (@eshanisurya ) out now shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it reduces us to the worst parts of ourselves in search of the right kind of beautiful. 📚 Are any of these on your radar? If you aren’t familiar with the incomparable @roxanegay74 and her unbelievable works, including her fantastic imprint, make it one of your resolutions for the new year to do so. 🏷️ #roxanegaybooks #roxanegay #bookmail #bookmailisthebestmail #bookstack

Number three in the 2025 Roxane Gay Book gift guide is @treize64 ! You can purchase his memoir in essays RACEBOOK at the link in our bio. His reading recommendations: 1. “A People’s History of Soccer” by Mickaël Correia a. One of the greatest sports books I’ve ever read. Correia traces football from its 17th century origins in rural English villages to its globe-spanning present day with an eye for the political upheaval the sport has caused at every step along the way. Turkish ultras resisting a dictatorial president, Egyptian football fans flocking to Tahrir Square, female French footballers fighting for equality in the wake of May ‘68, Italian footballers and their resistance against Mussolini, all of this and much, much more is covered in this capacious book. Every page felt like an adventure. Maybe my favorite read of the year. 2. “Mason & Dixon” by Thomas Pynchon a. Pynchon got a lot of light shone on him this year with his latest novel “Shadow Ticket” and the movie “One Battle After Another,” adapting his novel “Vineland.” But my favorite Pynchon—Pynchon at his most humanist—is “Mason & Dixon,” his story of the bromance that gave us the Mason-Dixon line. For all the technical brilliance and the eye-catching frills, this, to me, is the book that shows what Pynchon is all about. Beneath the paranoia and the conspiracies and the secrets and the plots and counter-plots beats the human heart in all its glorious mystery.

This Sunday 12/7 CSPAN2 is airing a Litquake Marathon! Starting at 9:55am, they will be running these 5 recorded events from this year’s festival. For the night owls out there, the marathon will start again at 9:55pm.

Preparing to make football my whole personality #fc26

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

The word of the day really was fam. Oh how we love Tochi Onyebuchi @treize64 . And wow Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet - a memoir in essays, assembled like an album, with sequence, scope, substance, and a ‘sum’ even greater than its already great parts. Such a wonderful conversation about all this and more tonight between Tochi and the always amazing Juanita Sunday @curatornita , and also among those gathered in the public living room that is Possible Futures. If you’re feeling that ROMO (regret of missing out), you’re not wrong (sorry not sorry), and it’s also your good fortune that we’ve got signed copies of Racebook on the shelf and a sincere desire to talk to everyone about it. Consider yourselves warned; if you start asking us what we think, it may be a long, enthusiasm-filled visit for you, and while we are an avowedly anti capitalist bookspace, this one is not gonna be a soft sell. 🤣 In all seriousness, we’re grateful for this book and its invitation to think capaciously about identity, to trade either/or for both/and, to hold space for the complex and sometimes contradictory realities that define our lives online and IRL, and to find reasons hope amidst so much that might make us feel otherwise. 🌈📚❤️ #possiblefutures #bookjoy #racebook #apersonalhistoryoftheinternet #community #love

🎤 Thank you @litquake and @cspan BookTV for the opportunity to interview @treize64 Tochi Onyebuchi about his memoir #Racebook : A Personal History of the Internet. It was an honor and a delight! As we wrapped up the interview, I asked Tochi for parting advice for these times. His answer? "Touch grass." I'm taking this as a challenge to get outside! 🌱