Category: Creative Non-Fiction

June 17, 2010

Going with the Grain by Susan Seligson ** (of 4)

Eight travel stories about bread in Morocco, Jordan, Brooklyn, the Wonder Bread factory in Massachusetts and so forth. Seligson writes well enough. Her stories are...

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June 17, 2010

Game Time by Roger Angell *** (of 4)

A collection of Angell’s best stories about baseball. Vintage Angell. He’s one of the greatest writers in the English language on any topic.

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June 17, 2010

The Founding Fish by John McPhee ** (of 4)

Classic late McPhee. Dense, exquisitely written, and plotless.

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June 17, 2010

Fire by Sebastian Junger *** (of 4)

This is a series of reports from the late 90s, magazine articles originally, about dangerous jobs and dangerous people: smokejumpers, jihadists in Afghanistan, blood thirsty...

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June 17, 2010

A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger **** (of 4)

In the early 60s the Boston Strangler attacked, murdered, and then raped eleven women in and around the city. A black man with a criminal...

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June 17, 2010

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson * (of 4)

The book is deadly boring. It might have made a decent one-pager in a fluffy magazine. Johnson is obsessed with obituaries, which, admittedly, can have...

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June 16, 2010