“Picking Cotton” is a painful examination of how wrong our criminal justice system can be–both for those accusing and the accused.
Author Archives: pithysummary
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
The limits of humans’ physical capabilities, and how endurance can, and cannot, change those limits.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is a show about belief–what happens when we believe in the best of ourselves and others, and what happens when we don’t.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #50
The Non-fiction Feature: Endure by Alex Hutchinson
The Memoir Spot: Just Add Water by Katie Ledecky
The Product Spot: Ted Lasso
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
A look into Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky’s incredible endurance, work ethic, and skill.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #44
The Non-fiction Feature: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Poetry Spot: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, editor Arnold Rampersad
The Product Spot: PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)
PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)
A film about why black Southerners sought to leave, the North’s role in the migration, and the factors that led to the migration.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
A compilation of poems by one of this country’s most esteemed poets, who lived during the Great Migration.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The incredible mass movement of millions of blacks forging a path north in the early 1900s.
The Monthly Bulletin: February 2024
The Non-fiction Feature: All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
The Fiction Spot: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus;
The Product Spot: The Golden Girls