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What I Am Reading: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt

A little bit of southern gothic (though not as much as I would have liked) in Savannah.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 17, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power" by Deirdre Mask

A primer on how street addresses function in relation to class, race, politics, and government power.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 11, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Austerlitz" by W.G. Sebald

A novel about the passage of time as a war refugee tries to track down the Holocaust-related fates of his parents.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 6, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear" by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

A book about the libertarian takeover of a small town in New Hampshire, and the ursine mayhem that follows.

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WritingTyler WolaninDecember 2, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Big Ugly" by William F. Weld

The sequel to Mackerel by Moonlight, following Terry Mullally’s Senate shenanigans.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 30, 2020Books, #MApoliComment
What I Am Reading: "Mackerel by Moonlight" by William F. Weld

Bill Weld’s first political novel about how he wishes he were a Boston Irish Democrat.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 28, 2020Books, #MApoliComment
What I Am Reading: "Let George Do It!" by Foster Furcolo

A politics novel published (under a pen name) by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1957.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 25, 2020Books, #MApoliComment
What I Am Reading: "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann

A book about the lost Fawcett expedition to find a hypothetical city in the Amazon.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 21, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "Stillwater" by William F. Weld

A novel about the Quabbin Reservoir by former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 17, 2020Books, #MApoliComment
What I Am Reading: "Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, A Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu" by Christopher Heaney

The story of the publicization of Machu Picchu by American scholar Hiram Bingham.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 14, 2020Books, Art HistoryComment
What I Am Reading: "FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944" by David M. Jordan

Dewey Defeats Roosevelt.

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WritingTyler WolaninNovember 4, 2020Books, ElectionsComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "The Reddening" by Adam L.G. Neville

The latest novel from my favorite contemporary horror author about a prehistoric death cult.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 31, 2020Halloween, BooksComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir

Interplanetary lesbian necromancers, as if you didn’t know.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 27, 2020Books, HalloweenComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn

A grotesque novel of the traveling carnival.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 21, 2020Halloween, BooksComment
🎃 What I Am Reading for Halloween: "The Ballad of Black Tom" by Victor LaValle

Another effort to reshape Lovecraft for modern audiences, this time focusing on “The Horror at Red Hook.”

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 18, 2020Books, Lovecraft, HalloweenComment
What I Am Reading: "Man's Fate" by André Malraux

A novel about the Chinese Communists and the Kuomintaung in the 1920s.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 16, 2020BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Black Jacobins" by C.L.R. James

The legendary history of the Haitian Revolution.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 13, 2020Books, Black HistoryComment
What I Am Reading: "1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler - the Election Amid the Storm" by Susan Dunn

Everything you need to know about the Presidential Election of 1940.

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 8, 2020Interwar / Rise of Fascism, BooksComment
What I Am Reading: "The Stolen Prince" by Hugh Barnes

Research on Abram Gannibal, an African slave adopted by Peter the Great who became “Europe’s first Black intellectual.”

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WritingTyler WolaninOctober 5, 2020Books, Black HistoryComment
What I Am Reading: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

“Never send to know”

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WritingTyler WolaninSeptember 24, 2020Books, Interwar / Rise of FascismComment
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