Mulzer's review of The New Kings of Nonfiction
The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass
Hmm. I finished this ages ago, and it has since been returned to the library, so I can't even flip through it to remind myself what my thoughts are. A few scattered observations: I'd already read many of these in other places (the Pollan corn chapter, the Gladwell, the Dan Savage as a Republican piece, among not-now-remembered others), but I don't figure that should matter. If they're good (and to be honest, that's not the best Savage piece ever and I don't actually like Gladwell so much), or even if they're only pretty good, and if the collection is good, the essays should benefit from being re-read in conjunction with each other. But they didn't, really. As a collection, this book is really mediocre. It didn't seem to be curated in any way, or even haphazardly thrown together in an enlightening manner; I expected more from someone who is such a great curator of sometimes-seemingly-disparate stories.
On the stories themselves, the new-to-me ones, ot at least those tha...more
On the stories themselves, the new-to-me ones, ot at least those tha...more
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