Arbitrary Stupid Goal
by Tamara Shopsin
First of all, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is not about football. (It's just a funny cover.) It is, ostensibly, about the general store Tamara Shopsin's parents ran in Greenwich Village, which they turned in... (Tom)
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
by Dan Kaufman
"Wisconsin is a laboratory for the rest of the country." Those are words that might have once applied to the progressive "Wisconsin Idea," but in Kaufman's book are spoken by a conservative activist a... (Tom)
The Gallery
by John Horne Burns
The Gallery turned out to be a masterpiece of WWII literature I wasn’t expecting and didn’t know I needed. Burns alternates brief recollections of his travels in the military bureaucracy trailing the... (Liz)
The Long Haul
Summer might feel like it's slipping away already (it does to me!), but we still have a month and a half left till Labor Day, which is plenty of time if you're doing Summer Book Bingo with the Seattle... (Tom)
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
by Finn Murphy
Maybe you saw that recent map that showed that the most common job in 29 of the 50 states is truck driver, but when was the last time you read a book by one? Finn Murphy is an anomaly: the black sheep... (Tom)