Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell (Amazon / Book Depository) We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the... Continue Reading →
Book review: Republic of Lies, by Anna Merlan (Amazon / Book Depository) It's a typically disorienting winter day in an unremarkable part of Los Angeles, the palm trees bristling above the Walgreens and the tire shops, the golden light washing insistently over the slowly rotating sign above a twenty-four-hour burger joint, its paint peeled away... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Vienna Woods Killer, by John Leake (Amazon / Book Depository) John Leake, an American writer who lived nearly a decade in Vienna, wrote this definitive account of Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. Unterweger's is quite the interesting story, not least because the crime of serial murder is far from common in Austria. Combined... Continue Reading →
Book review: Jesus Freaks, by Don Lattin (Amazon / Book Depository) This was an okay book, but nowhere near a great one, and I'd say there are multiple reasons not to read it. One of them being that Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" will be stuck in your head nonstop for the duration of reading it.... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Red Parts, by Maggie Nelson Amazon The Red Parts defies categorization. In the broadest terms it's a memoir, but it's also true crime, literary theory, narrative nonfiction, social commentary, philosophy, and in case you're in doubt about any of its genres or topics, it's written with a beautiful poetic voice, just making... Continue Reading →
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