Entries Tagged as 'Books'
Entitled to Be Competent
November 18th, 2020 · No Comments
Lately, we’ve been inundated with stories of men’s entitlement gone awry: the Me Too movement, of course, but also Rebecca Solnit’s being mansplained by someone so arrogant he barely paused when her friend got through to him that he was lecturing Ms. Solnit on her own work.
Tags: Books · Social Studies
How Not to Land a Job
November 17th, 2020 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Books · Non Fiction
Race Is a Social Construct
November 5th, 2020 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Books · Non Fiction · Politics
The Dynamite behind the Door
October 4th, 2020 · No Comments
Rage by Bob Woodward, he of Watergate fame, is yet another book about the Trump presidency. You’ve read all about it already, except this time the stories are based on actual recorded interviews–17!–with The Donald himself.
So I’ll get right down to the part that interested me the most.
Coming of Age a Stray: Addiction as a Relative Judgement
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.
Tags: Books · Love and Sex · Memoir · Non Fiction