“Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of ‘coming forward.’”
Books
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Shhhh. The Silver Lake Reading Club Has Started
“Begun on the premise that book clubs were too restrictive and too chardonnay-focused, they wanted to provide a space where there was no assigned reading and everyone was welcome.”
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Safety Net
These days, when you work as a librarian in America, there is no lack of emergencies.
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Tasting Indian Creek
“We let the sauce simmer until it is thick. The apparition of my grandmother lingers awhile before it disappears.”
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Days of the Jackal
How Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business.
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What Does It Mean to Protect Children?
“This is the question that ripped an idyllic high-plains town asunder.”
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When Horror Is the Truth-teller
“It is hard, in the era of the AR-15, to fear a vampire.”
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How to Quit Cars
“The history of transportation will always be social history, writ large.”
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How Tokyo Became an Anti-Car Paradise
“The world’s biggest, most functional city might also be the most pedestrian-friendly. That’s not a coincidence.”