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Wojciechowski's The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentuckynew
Although the full title occasions three objections all by itself, Gene Wojciechowski's book is nevertheless essential reading for anyone interested in college basketball—and especially, in these environs, for local sports lovers.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
01-11-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Gene Wojciechowski
It Happened on the Way to Warnew
Rye Barcott's book about his work with the Kibera slum in Kenya.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-29-2011 |
Nonfiction
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a Familiar Tour of Dutynew
For Karl Marlantes, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, the publication of his book may very well exorcise his Vietnam demons. It may also do the same for his comrades in arms.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
11-10-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes
New Yorker Writer Ian Frazier's Travels in Siberianew
At nearly 500 pages long, Frazier's Siberia rambles through ancient history and contemporary anecdote, is full of both affection and frustration, and has a deliberately inconclusive ending. It seems appropriate.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
11-05-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ian Frazier
Sweet, Sweet Saccharinnew
Empty Pleasures views 20th-century America through the progress of its sweeteners.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-27-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Empty Pleasures
Walking in Black Women's Footstepsnew
Two important new histories of the Civil Rights movement.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
'The Book of Dads' Elicits Pungent Prose from Nearly All of its Contributorsnew
It seems appropriate that both The Book of Dads and Father's Day arrive at the onset of summer, when dads and kids head for the shore. A handful of these 20 essays take place on the water, and an aquatic vacation might be the best time to give your favorite father this enlightened, enlightening book.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
06-18-2009 |
Nonfiction
Author Justin Catanoso Discovers His Family's Remarkable Legacynew
My Cousin the Saint is a reminder that the word "work" is as crucial as "miracle" in the phrases they share.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
Mike Sager's New Journalism Fills 'Donut Boys'new
Sager gives frontline reports on everything from the rapper Ice Cube to expat Vietnam vets in Thailand to suburban-Maryland Tupperware saleswomen.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Professor Works Out His Salvation Through NASCARnew
Here is what many nonbelievers see when they glimpse a NASCAR race on television: A bunch of billboards on wheels turning left at insane speeds, perpetrating unconscionable air and noise pollution and pointless death, and wasting an increasingly precious natural resource.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Minority Leaguesnew
How integration came to the South via minor league baseball.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
04-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
An Original and Incisive Essay Collectionnew
A book by a poet about poetry should, above all, excite readers about poems, and that's what The Napkin Manuscripts does best.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-15-2007 |
Nonfiction
