Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters

The Road through the Wall by Shirley Jackson

Selected Prose of TS Eliot by TS Eliot

The Burden of Southern History by C Vann Woodward

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The Road through the Wall A novel that reminds me of what I’ve always known, that American suburbs are deeply rotten states. Shirley Jackson earned her fame by writing about small towns, but this novel published around the same time of the The Lottery story collection is a reminder, along with most of those stories, that all parts of the US have a deep cultural rot to them that is not housed in specific places. Those places just have their own flavors. The novel takes […]

The Strange Career of Jim Crow – C Vann Woodward (1955)

The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C Vann Woodward

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I very much had this book mixed up with a different book, Jump Jim Crow, which is more about the musical, the minstrelsy, and the history surrounding that. This on the other hand is a completely different book about the short history of the Jim Crows laws in the South. The main takeaway from this book, as stated in the introduction, the main text, the afterword, and from an oft-cited reference to this book from Martin Luther King, is the reminder that Jim Crows laws […]



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