Book review: Beneath a Ruthless Sun, by Gilbert King Amazon Gilbert King, 2013 Pulitzer winner for Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, returns to the setting of that book: mid-20th century Florida and the intersection of justice and race relations, to tell a new story from the... Continue Reading →
A Crucial, Timely Work of Narrative Reportage on Rape Investigation
Book review: A False Report, by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong Amazon / Book Depository It's early, but I'll call it - this will be one of the most important nonfiction titles released this year. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong discovered every reporter's nightmare - they were chasing nearly the same story.... Continue Reading →
Powerful Essays, Brilliant Criticism From Mary Gaitskill
Book review: Somebody With a Little Hammer, by Mary Gaitskill (Amazon / Book Depository) Novelist Mary Gaitskill, in her nonfiction essays, makes you think, and not just as you read. The content of these essays - in all their depth, humor, pain, wit, and wisdom - stays with you long after finishing. As does the feeling that... Continue Reading →
The Darkness of Someone Else’s Past
Book review: I Will Find You, by Joanna Connors (Amazon / Book Depository) Journalist Joanna Connors is unbelievably brave, whether she admits it or not. She denies it in her memoir, I Will Find You, but everything she does proves otherwise. At age 30, Connors was raped by a man hanging out in an empty theater where she showed... Continue Reading →