Just Kids by Patti Smith (Illustrated Edition)
★★★★☆ On a sunny summer Monday in 1967, Patti Smith arrived via Greyhound in New York City. She took the subway from Port Authority in Manhattan to Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyn, where friends she...
Author: Mark Flanagan
We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
★★★★☆ “When a radical change is needed, many argue that it is impossible for individual actions to incite it, so it’s futile for anyone to try. This is exactly the opposite of the truth;...
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
★★★☆☆ Billionaire tech magnate Richard “Dodge” Forthrast dies while undergoing a medical procedure. His family learns that he has requested that his brain be cryogenically preserved, and when the technology becomes available, digitally uploaded....
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
★★★★☆ In the early 1990’s Neal Stephenson became a geek fiction icon with the cyberpunk novels Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. Since that time, his novels have veered from science fiction deeply into...
The Overstory by Richard Powers
★★★★☆ To say that The Overstory is a book about trees would be like saying Moby-Dick is a book about a whale. Richard Powers’ latest novel is a multi-layered, multi-generational epic that interweaves the...
Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II by Clay Bonnyman Evans
★★★★☆ In Bones of My Grandfather, Clay Evans recalls his boyhood fascination with World War II, specifically being mesmerized by his mother’s father, a war hero “whose legend had hung like a morning mist...
Zen and Gone by Emily France
★★★★☆ Emily France wastes no time plunging her readers straight into the crisis of Zen and Gone. No sooner do we crack the book’s spine than we find our heroine, 17-year-old Essa McKree, searching...
Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen
★★★★☆ The Earth is human-dominated; humans consume one quarter of all plant-produced food and half of the world’s fresh water. In 2007, the number of people living in urban areas passed the number living...
R.I.P. Tom Wolfe (1931-2018)
Sad to hear of Tom Wolfe’s passing yesterday. Wolfe, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff, revolutionized journalism in the 1960s, the effects of which...
