Recommended Reading: “Fog Count” by Leslie Jamison, which is a stunning piece of writing about West Virginia, coal country, an ultramarathon runner, the American housing crisis, its nightmarish prison system, and so, so much more.
Fog Count
Tuesday New Release Day: Dovlatov; Rieger; Levine; Kaysen; Jia; Mirvis; Merwin; Wright
New this week: Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov; The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger; Hyde by Daniel Levine; Cambridge by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen; Decoded by Mai Jia; Visible City by Tova Mirvis; The Moon Before Morning by W.S. Merwin; and Caribou by Charles Wright.
Reading Courtside
From the WSJ, NBA players who read books, some of them pretty good (books and players, I guess). Also, the old "Phil Jackson gives his players books" anecdote is a familiar one, but who knew he passed out copies of 2666? (Thanks, Craig)
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Oh Doctor
Recommended Reading: Frances Stonor Saunders on Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago.
Tuesday New Release Day: Buckley; May; Vallgren; Miller
Out this week: The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley; Paradise City by Elizabeth May; The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren; and The Penguin Collected Plays of Arthur Miller. For more on these and other new titles, check out our Great Second-Half 2015 Book Preview.
A New Little Women
This week in book-to-film adaptation news: there will soon be another take on Little Women, to be produced by Amy Pascal and adapted by Sarah Polley.
Pioneering
Recommended Reading: Ruth Graham on the uncensored memoirs of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
“Surprise attacks”
Last week, I pointed to former Millions-er Emily M. Keeler’s review of Wolf in White Van, the new novel by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. Now, at Slate, Carl Wilson offers his own praise of the book, which he describes as “not the kind of rallying cry or dark comfort that Mountain Goats fans are used to, but a complex meditation.”
Trailer for Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Part 10: Space Hygiene: "Unfortunately, removing the helmet created a situation where the body odors were forced out of the neck of the pressure suit..." Check out this funny and artful trailer for Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.
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