This was purchased remaindered so I wasn’t upset when I found this was less a new freakonomics book and more a collection of their blog posts collected into book form. It wouldn’t have even been a disappointment new if I’d been aware that’s what I was buying. But it definitely feels like the collection of essays written for online readers that it is. Each piece is short and minimally explored, some being absolute puff and others leaving me feeling deprived that they weren’t expanded upon. […]
Heather, The Totality. Brilliant. Totally.
Matthew Weiner’s first foray into fiction is one of the most striking works I have read, its very clever, very odd, but very clever. At 134 pages long it is more of a novella but still packs an enormous punch – a punch that comes in the most unusual format. The novel is written in a series of short choppy paragraphs with little to no dialogue – you will either love or hate Weiners first work. Weiner sets his characters on what seems to be […]
Short and Thought-Provoking
Sum is a book that you could easily tear through in an hour or two, depending on how quickly you read and whether you take time to process what you’ve read, but I would recommend taking a little bit of time with it. I read it over the course of a few days so I could take a little time to absorb and reflect on each vignette, or at least the ones that I found most interesting or thought-provoking. Sum manages to contain a lot […]
In which Joe Hill takes one step closer to becoming the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator.
I’ve said this before: I can’t imagine it would have taken very long for the reading public to figure out that Joe Hill was really Joe King if he hadn’t admitted it himself. And in each book of Hill’s that I read, I see more and more of his dad in the writing. In fact, if you told me that two of the four novellas in Strange Weather had actually been written by Uncle Stevie, I would just nod, and say, “of course they were.” […]
So Much Small-Town Drama
If you have ever lived in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everyone knows everyone’s darkest secrets, then Amgash, Illinois and its cast of characters will seem really familiar to you. In a series of short stories, Elizabeth Strout moves from one character to another — most of the time the people in the tales being told are linked by blood or friendship, and so over the course of about a year, the lives of Strout’s characters weave together, with Strout checking back […]
“Women have power. Go, Girl, go.”
I first heard of Sheila Nevins maybe 8 or so years ago. I was working at my first job, in the marketing department of an indie film distribution company. We would occasionally luck out and get the rights to HBO documentaries. My then-boss told me that when it came time for the Emmys and Oscars to listen for Nevins’ name. She was always thanked by the winners—I read that she had sent Joe Berlinger an article about the West Memphis 3 which resulted in Paradise […]
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