Can I even comment on Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver given that I have not read David Copperfield? (collective intake of breath from the blogging community).
Kingsolver reimagines Copperfield against the backdrop of the mountains of southern Appalachia; racism; trailer parks; foster care; and the opioid crisis of the eighties.
Certain pitiful souls around here see whiteness as their last asset that hasn’t been totaled or repossessed. Continue reading
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01. Saw Death of a Salesman this week. A brilliant production (sets and casting were outstanding). It was remarkable how I felt simultaneously tense and drained for the duration of the play. It’s only on for a couple more weeks but see it if you can (image). Continue reading
It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
I did away with ‘top tens’ a few years ago, and instead I finish the reading year with a recap of the books that are still speaking to me (less about four and five-star ratings, more about what has stuck). Continue reading
You can basically sign me up for anything that Patrick Radden Keefe writes. After I finished Say Nothing, I was a devotee.
Rogues is a collection of ‘true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks’, all written as long-form investigative pieces for The New Yorker. Continue reading
This week, Christopher at Plucked From the Stacks looks at what makes some nonfiction books ‘fictiony’, simply because the stories are so wild, they don’t seem real. Continue reading
It’s time for Nonfiction November, starting with my ‘Year in Nonfiction’, hosted by Doing Dewey. Continue reading
The Sacklers had given away hundreds of millions of dollars, and for decades the Sackler name had been associated in the public mind with philanthropy.
But Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the other side of the Sackler name in Empire of Pain, where he exposes (in meticulous and gripping detail) how the Sacklers were responsible for developing OxyContin, the painkiller that is described as the ‘taproot’ of the opioid epidemic. Continue reading
A very quiet week as still in recovery mode.
01. Piccolina’s delicious gelato answer to the box of Roses. Continue reading