The Non-fiction Feature: $2.00 a Day – Living on Almost Nothing in America
The Fiction Spot: A Manual for Cleaning Women
The Product Spot: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Author Archives: Carlen
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin’s sometimes melancholy, sometimes spirited, and always beautiful collection of short stories.
Gutshot
This slim collection of short stories is brutal, startling, and reveals what people feel deep down when they’re at their most desperate.
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So, kids these days like things such as 5-layer-filtration-system masks! VIDA KN95 kids masks are as good as they get.
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow’s alarming account of not only Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults, but also of people and companies that relentlessly and viciously protect people like Weinstein.
The Weekly Bulletin: November 4, 2021
The Non-fiction Feature: Catch and Kill – Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
The Fiction Spot: Gutshot
The Product Spot: VIDA Kids KN96 Mask
KiwiCo: STEM, STEAM & Science Kits for Kids
Do you want your kid to learn science? Do you also want to salvage your sanity by not having to make a craft science kit for your kid? Then Kiwico is for you. Seriously, it is.
Heavy: An American Memoir
A heart-wrenching memoir of growing up Black in Mississippi: a story about family, achievement, loss, writing, and gambling.
The Weekly Bulletin: October 28, 2021
The Non-fiction Feature: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
The Memoir & Poetry Spot: Heavy: An American Memoir
The Product Spot: Kiwico
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race
An examination of the psychology of racism in America, and how understanding the complexities of racial identity benefits everyone.