The Underground Railroad
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote in his NPR review of the novel? That sentence, more than one-hundred-and-fifty years post-Civil War and Emancipation, seems lamely inadequate to me. I don’t believe this book is yet another novel […]
Airport Book Buying
Yesterday, on my way to Southwest Gate B5 at Reno Lake Tahoe International Airport for the short flight to Portland, Oregon, I stopped by a shop to pick up a package of pocket Kleenex. While waiting at the cash register where the clerk was ringing up a book sale, I overheard the clerk ask the […]
Christmas in Converse
Christmas greetings from Converse, Indiana! I headed to the Midwest for a visit with my son Lukas’ in-laws this holiday season. Also took along Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and, with only about 150 pages to go, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those books that sticks with you each time you put it down. It has […]