"Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage." ~ Paulette Jiles, News of the World
Review: News of the World
Team Review: Radio Free Vermont
“It was, he thought, a blessing to have lived out his life in a place that spun slowly like that yellow leaf, an eddy in the American rapids, a place that was shrinking when most of the country was growing, growing, ever-growing,” ~ Bill McKibben
Review: Eileen
“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back,” Ottessa Moshfegh
Team Review: The Sellout
"It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world."
Review: Autumn
"He's not just one thing or another. Nobody is. Not even you." ~Ali Smith, Autumn
Artful
Books themselves take time, more time more time than most of us are used to giving them. - Ali Smith
Team Review: Station Eleven
This post-apocalyptic novel meanders through a poorly-imagined future.
Review: All the King’s Men
Though it was written 70 years ago, it seems like this book has had a major impact on how the entertainment industry writes and produces political dramas today.
Review: Hotel World
Ali Smith’s Hotel World is signature Smith—experimental and clever while being easy to read.
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