Alec MacGillis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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A good movie to watch this weekend: "Europa, Europa," in memory of Solomon Perel, on whose extraordinary WWII survival story it is based. He died this week, at 97. https://t.co/BvUhxVsjRx

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Peter Robinson, wheelchair-bound from polio, has played piano for past 11 yrs at Jefferson Hotel in DC. But after a year of anemic pandemic tourism, the hotel called him up: "It took less than a minute for him to learn that he would never return to work." https://t.co/jPojk6r9C7

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From Hershel Parker biography of Herman Melville: "In the Melville household [Mary] became the generic word for the cook, under the principle that many Irish girls were named Mary and that servants stayed too short a time to warrant the family's mastering a new one was hired." 😬

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To borrow from the Buzz Bissinger title on early '90s Philadelphia: say a prayer for the city.

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Lovely @markv747 meditation on what travel abroad means for LGBTQ Americans, pegged to the release of his new book from the vantage of a global airline pilot, "Imagine a City": https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/travel/lgbtq-travel.html

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This is quite an essay by Mary Gaitskill on what it's like to teach creative writing these days at one of the top public universities in the country, contending with a constant stream of short stories about suicide and violence from troubled students. https://t.co/535oO4EXC5

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Just one of the many horrific accounts from the Jim Crow era highlighted in this Eric Foner review of Margaret Burnham's "By Hands Now Known": https://t.co/eyUaG874OF https://t.co/qZdJR8QhwP

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This is a good deep @GuyChazan profile of Robert Habeck, the German economy minister who has a PhD in literary aesthetics and has tried to finesse the contradiction of being a Green Party star who is restarting coal plants to get through the energy crisis. https://t.co/J8MdJfXNZh

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Heads up: I reviewed POVERTY, BY AMERICA, the new book by Matthew Desmond (@just_shelter), author of EVICTED, for the NYT Book Review. https://t.co/pNWIXvvGRQ

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@AliceFromQueens Model Home, by Eric Puchner. Brilliantly captures tract-home exurbs in '80s Southern California.