Entries Tagged as 'Non Fiction'
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
author Barbara Ehrenreich is trying to land a white-collar position in a corporation. She wants to find out what job hunting is like in the trenches of the middle-class unemployed and expects to write her book with a happy “I got the job” ending. That’s not what happens. Read more... (256 words, 4 images, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)
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My sister thinks the New York Times favors Black people when choosing photos for the front page of their Arts section. In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
, Isabel Wilkerson provides an answer for that seeming favoritism. She explains that Black people are over represented today in entertainment because under the Jim Crow laws, entertaining was one of the few jobs they were allowed. Black people had generations of practice: When they were actual slaves, they were required by their masters to sing and dance and appear to be happy. Read more... (353 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Non Fiction · Politics
September 28th, 2020 · No Comments
Stray: A Memoir
by Stephanie Danler is a story about coming of age with a drug-addicted father. She doesn’t realize he’s an addict until much later, when he loses himself in meth. Read more... (347 words, 2 images, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Love and Sex · Memoir · Non Fiction
September 16th, 2020 · No Comments
In What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
, E. Jean Carroll describes her “encounter” with The Donald in Bergdorf’s some 25 years ago, but she doesn’t name him. “I’m a coward,” she tells us. I would be too. Read more... (230 words, 1 image, estimated 55 secs reading time)
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September 15th, 2020 · No Comments
Augusten Burroughs begins Toil & Trouble
explaining how he learned that he was a witch. I was not expecting fiction, so I checked the library marking on the book’s spine: Is it ‘B’ for biography, or ‘F’ for fiction? The spine read ‘B’; I skipped ahead. The book turns out to be about Mr. Burroughs’s moving with his partner from New York City to Connecticut, and in the process, re-connecting with his mother, but only after her death. Premonitions turn out to be the most important of Mr. Burroughs’s witch characteristics, characteristics we are told he inherited from his mother’s side of the family. Readers of Running with Scissors
will recognize mentions of his early years with his mother deteriorating and her psychiatrist taking over his life.
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Tags: Books · Non Fiction
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author Barbara Ehrenreich is trying to land a white-collar position in a corporation. She wants to find out what job hunting is like in the trenches of the middle-class unemployed and expects to write her book with a happy “I got the job” ending. That’s not what happens. 
, Isabel Wilkerson provides an answer for that seeming favoritism. She explains that Black people are over represented today in entertainment because under the Jim Crow laws, entertaining was one of the few jobs they were allowed. Black people had generations of practice: When they were actual slaves, they were required by their masters to sing and dance and appear to be happy. 
by Stephanie Danler is a story about coming of age with a drug-addicted father. She doesn’t realize he’s an addict until much later, when he loses himself in meth. 
, E. Jean Carroll describes her “encounter” with The Donald in Bergdorf’s some 25 years ago, but she doesn’t name him. “I’m a coward,” she tells us. I would be too. 
explaining how he learned that he was a witch. I was not expecting fiction, so I checked the library marking on the book’s spine: Is it ‘B’ for biography, or ‘F’ for fiction? The spine read ‘B’; I skipped ahead. The book turns out to be about Mr. Burroughs’s moving with his partner from New York City to Connecticut, and in the process, re-connecting with his mother, but only after her death. Premonitions turn out to be the most important of Mr. Burroughs’s witch characteristics, characteristics we are told he inherited from his mother’s side of the family. Readers of 
will recognize mentions of his early years with his mother deteriorating and her psychiatrist taking over his life.
