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Friday, August 7, 2020

I Don’t Care If I Never Get Back

August 6, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alex Rodriguez, Barstool Sports, baseball, Chris Taylor, ESPN, Joe Davis, Joe Kelly, Karl Ravech, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, Mike Clevinger, Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, Orel Hershiser, Rob Manfred

Weird rules, masked baserunners, piped-in sound, cardboard cutouts of dogs, whatever, it’s still baseball

Directors Memoir NON-FICTION

Barry Sonnenfeld: the Most Neurotic Man in Hollywood

August 3, 2020August 5, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Barry Sonnenfeld, Blood Simple, Coen Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Will Smith

Memoir doesn’t tell all, but reveals a lot

Stranger Than Fiction

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Bookselling, COVID-19

Months into the pandemic, indie booksellers grapple with the challenges of reopening

NON-FICTION Sports

Where Have You Gone, Garry Templeton?

July 23, 2020July 31, 2020 Jon Hart 0 Comments baseball, Brad Balukjian, Sports, Wax Pack

‘The Wax Pack’ tracks down a set of baseball players after their final innings

NON-FICTION Politics

Four More Books About Donald Trump

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments David Frum, David Shimer, Donald Trump, John Bolton, Masha Gessen, Rigged, Trumpocalypse

Why not 40? Or 400?

Sports

Return of the Sportsball

June 29, 2020June 30, 2020 Mia McCullough 0 Comments Black Lives Matter, Indianapolis 500, MLB, NBA, NFL, Olympics, Sports, Stanley Cup, The Last Dance, U.S. Open

Are sports fans ever going to get their primary programming outlet back?

CREATORS FICTION NON-FICTION Politics Writers

Critical Mess: The NBCC Implosion

June 23, 2020June 26, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Carlin Romano, Hope Wabuke, Ismail Muhammad, NBCC

The National Book Critics’ Circle’s old-guard members refuse to roll with the times

Memoir NON-FICTION

The Vanishing Country of Bakari Sellers

June 11, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Bakari Sellers, Barack Obama, Harriet Wilson, Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates

An urgent memoir, a call to action

FICTION NON-FICTION

Your New Night ‘Out’ is an Online Silent Reading Party

June 10, 2020June 9, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Silent Reading, The Stranger

Seattle’s The Stranger hosts a weekly Zoom meeting for lonely readers

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Literary Agent Gets Cancelled, Fires Her Whole Staff

June 4, 2020June 10, 2020 Katie Smith 19 Comments

Marisa Corvisiero didn’t want them “caught in the crossfire.”

CREATORS Directors Memoir NON-FICTION Writers

Woody Allen’s Brilliant New Memoir is Actually Two Different Books

June 4, 2020June 24, 2020 Ken Kurson 7 Comments Alan Dershowitz, Alec Baldwin, Apropos Of Nothing, Diane Keaton, Greta Gerwig, Mia Farrow, Mira Sorvino, New York Times, Nick Apollo Forte, Ronan Farrow, Scarlett Johansson, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

A witty, self-deprecating showbiz reminiscence and a detailed, persuasive self-defense

FICTION Memoir NON-FICTION

A Reading List of Books By Black Authors

June 3, 2020June 12, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Alice Randall, Bethany C. Morrow, Cadwell Turnbull, Ebony Flowers, Hanif Abdurraqib, Hot Comb, How To Exterminate The Black Woman, Jabari Asim, MEM, Monica Prince, Nella Larsen, Passing, Riot Baby, Sarah M. Broom, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, The Lesson, The Wind Done Gone, The Yellow House, Tochi Onyebuchi, We Can’t Breathe

I can read. It’s better than doing nothing.

DOCUMENTARY FILM Sports

Michael Jordan Was Before My Time

May 12, 2020May 20, 2020 Peter Warren 0 Comments Chicago Bulls, Craig Ehlo, Isaiah Thomas, Jerry Krause, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Ron Harper, The Last Dance

For a college student, ‘The Last Dance’ has been a fascinating history lesson about basketball’s greatest

Memoir NON-FICTION

Rebecca Solnit Doesn’t Explain Herself

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence

In a new memoir, she hides behind the veil

Food NON-FICTION

What Will Happen to Restaurants?

May 1, 2020May 6, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments

The BFG Interview with British Food Critic and Author William Sitwell

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