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Review: LaValle’s The Changeling
A book that starts out as a heartwarming tale of parenthood, turns real dark, real fast, and ends up a surreal exploration of a world of monsters, cults, and heartbroken parents in New York City. Kinda about parenthood, kinda about race and difference, kinda about the role of social media, and kinda about the immigrant…
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Book Review: Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann This is a story of a mass murder. The murdered were members of the Osage tribe of Native Americans, who, for a host of complex reasons tied to U.S.’s horrific treatment of Native Americans, ended up inexplicably wealthy owners…
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Review: Goldstein’s Janesville: AN American Story
The story of what happens to a small town in the industrial Midwest when the primary employer (here, an auto plant) closes down. We all know the broad outline of how this goes down – the fight to keep the plant open eventually fails, and the town spirals down economically. But how the town changes,…
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Review: Desmond’s Evicted
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond An examination into how housing insecurity leads to general insecurity and upends lives. A brilliant book. It follows a number of different people in the Milwaukee area struggling with housing issues and uses their stories, and plenty of social science, to tell explain the way…
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Review Foer’s Moonwalking With Einstein
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer I read a lot of these experiential journalism books. Some of these are call-in jobs that would have been better as a magazine article, but many, including this one (and Cork Dork), are entertaining edutainment in which a pretty smart person gets to…
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On Re-Reading Gifford’s Spring Chicken and Thinking About Improving My Health Span
Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying) Bill Gifford I almost never re-read books. So the fact that I have now read Bill Gifford book on the science of aging twice should show you something about my current obsession with aging. As I said last time I read it, the book hits just the…
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Top 20 Posts and Pages
Milo just went over the 200,000 hit mark, which is pretty cool. By far the most popular section of this sprawling mess is the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire, which, if you’re a runner, is worth checking out. But in this post, I thought I’d highlight the 20 most popular posts on that aren’t related to the…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Chris Butler
Name Chris Butler Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 45 Height: 5’6’ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 162 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Outer Banks Tell us a little about the race. Shaded cool first half. Exposed hot second half. How long had you been running…
Milo and the Calf 