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editors of BookPage</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img fetchpriority="high" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="250" height="380" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154726/modelhome-250x380.jpg" alt="Model Home by Rivers Solomon book jacket" class="wp-image-207949" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154726/modelhome-250x380.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154726/modelhome-723x1100.jpg 723w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154726/modelhome-125x190.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154726/modelhome-768x1168.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154726/modelhome.jpg 789w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208105">Model Home</a></strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are: A horror movie marathon, specifically A24 horror movies</em></p> <p>Ezri Maxwell doesn’t know whether their childhood home had ghosts, exactly, but they do know that it was haunted and determined to maim, traumatize and scare them and their Black family into leaving their mostly white Dallas suburb. Desperate to distance themselves from a childhood of constant dread, Ezri and their sisters fled the former model home as soon as they were old enough. Their parents, however, stayed where they were—right until the day they died under mysterious circumstances. At its core, Rivers Solomon’s <strong>Model Home </strong>is a study of the interior landscape of someone trying to make sense of their life in the wake of extreme tragedy. Ezri’s head is cluttered with the detritus of trauma, from their mother’s ambivalence toward them as a child to the repercussions of living with mental health issues for years, (“a host of diagnoses—which change with whatever clinician I see”). A disturbing tale that explores self-doubt, family drama and childhood trauma, <strong>Model Home</strong> is a powerful and gut-wrenching addition to the haunted house pantheon.</p> <p class="has-text-align-left"><em>—Laura Hubbard</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img decoding="async" width="250" height="341" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154141/djinnology-250x341.jpg" alt="Djinnology by Seema Yasminis book jacket" class="wp-image-207928" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154141/djinnology-250x341.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154141/djinnology-750x1022.jpg 750w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154141/djinnology-125x170.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154141/djinnology-768x1047.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154141/djinnology.jpg 880w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208069">Djinnology</a> </strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are: Exploring potentially haunted places—abandoned strip malls, creaky old houses, creepy caves … you get the idea.</em></p> <p>If you’re in the mood for some spine-tingling stories, cozy up to <strong>Djinnology: An Illuminated Compendium of Spirits and Stories From the Muslim World</strong>, a fictitious (or is it?) compendium that is both fascinating and creepy, and made all the more so by Pulitzer Prize-winner Fahmida Azim’s striking illustrations. Seema Yasmin, a journalist, professor and physician, has created a fictional narrator named Dr. N, a taxonomist and ontologist who has traveled the world to investigate the sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent djinn. Djinn, Dr. N writes, have been “haunting humanity since pre-Islamic times.” He submits the fruits of his research to his academic committee to explain his long and unexplained absence from class, in this volume of stories from around the world that capture the long history and great variety of djinn. Many of these stories are related to human events, such as one concerning a ghostlike horseman who allegedly appeared in Cairo’s Tahrir Square at the height of the Arab Spring. Another terrifying tale of more dubious origins takes place in London, when a woman delivering her husband’s specimen to an IVF clinic spots what she thinks is an abandoned baby in the middle of the road. She stops, of course, but things do not go as she expects. <strong>Djinnology</strong> is beautifully designed, with maps, English and Arabic inscriptions and more, gamely selling a high-octane, between-two-worlds vibe. Most of all, Azim’s haunting illustrations in smoky colors perfectly portray this menagerie of spirits. Readers will find themselves looking over their shoulders.</p> <p class="has-text-align-left"><em>—Alice Cary</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img decoding="async" width="250" height="378" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153801/welovethenightlife-250x378.jpg" alt="We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft book jacket" class="wp-image-207914" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153801/welovethenightlife-250x378.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153801/welovethenightlife-728x1100.jpg 728w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153801/welovethenightlife-125x189.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153801/welovethenightlife-768x1160.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153801/welovethenightlife.jpg 795w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208163">We Love the Nightlife</a></strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are: A bar crawl in a tiny costume, weather be damned</em></p> <p>Quite often in fiction, the figure of the vampire has represented loneliness, but we’ve arguably never seen that sense of yearning quite the way Rachel Koller Croft portrays it in her new novel, <strong>We Love the Nightlife</strong>. Croft’s protagonist, Amber, is frozen in her party girl prime, turned in the waning days of the 1970s by her maker, the beautiful and manipulative Nicola. Decades later, Amber begins to imagine what life might be like without Nicola, and considers an escape plan. But Nicola’s influence is powerful, her ambitions are vast and her appetite for control deeper than Amber ever imagined. Despite her vampiric nature, Amber feels like one of us. This is mainly due to Croft’s skill; her conversational, warm and relatable prose depicts Amber not as a lonely monster, but as a person longing for freedom in a savage world covered in glitter and awash with pulsing music. We also get to see Nicola’s side of the story and her own brand of yearning, giving the book an antagonist who’s not just remarkably well-developed, but human in her own twisted way. These dueling perspectives, coupled with memorable side characters and a beautifully paced plot, make <strong>We Love the Nightlife</strong> an engrossing, darkly funny, twisted breakup story that’s perfect for vampire fiction lovers and fans of relationship drama alike.</p> <p class="has-text-align-left"><em>—Matthew Jackson</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="250" height="378" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153446/americanscary-250x378.jpg" alt="American Scary by Jeremy Dauber book jacket" class="wp-image-207902" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153446/americanscary-250x378.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153446/americanscary-728x1100.jpg 728w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153446/americanscary-125x189.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153446/americanscary-768x1160.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22153446/americanscary.jpg 795w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208049">★ American Scary</a></strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are: Watching a brainy horror documentary, or peeking at spooky clips on YouTube</em></p> <p>Any horror writer doing their job knows how to tap into the fears that plague us most. Jeremy Dauber’s <strong>American Scary:</strong> <strong>A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond</strong> provides a robust account of how art has reflected American dread for centuries. As it turns out, our history is rife with foundational fear, making it prime territory for some scary storytelling. Dauber starts his “tour of American fear” with our country’s bloody beginnings and proclivity for blaming the devil for everything from bad weather to miscarriage (hello, Salem!). He then passes through slavery, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War and beyond to more contemporary paranoias reflected in film: murderous technology (<em>The Terminator</em>), individual indifference (the Final Destination series) and surveillance (<em>Paranormal Activity</em>), to name a few. Dauber’s attention to the details of myriad cultural touchstones, both famous and obscure, will entice those who care to tiptoe deeper into the darkest of the dark. <strong>American Scary</strong>’s greatest success is making readers consider what art may be born of our late-night anxieties. Spooky stuff, huh?</p> <p class="has-text-align-left"><em>—Amanda Haggard</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="250" height="386" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety-250x386.jpg" alt="The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner book jacket" class="wp-image-207951" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety-250x386.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety-713x1100.jpg 713w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety-125x193.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety-768x1184.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety-996x1536.jpg 996w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154757/villagelibrarydemonhuntingsociety.jpg 778w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208149">The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society</a></strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are:</em> <em>Curling up in a chair at home, reading a lightly spooky book or one of the more gothic Agatha Christies</em></p> <p>Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle resides in a quiet hamlet in upstate New York. The only out of the ordinary detail about Ms. Pinkwhistle is that she loves to solve a good murder mystery—not only those in the books she protects and enjoys at work, but also the real-life, grisly deaths in the otherwise sleepy little town of Winesap. But when a string of local murders hits a little too close to home, Sherry realizes that she can no longer remain an unattached bystander. A demon, or several, might be at the heart of these ever-increasing deaths, and Sherry will need the help of her skeptical friends and her possibly-possessed cat to root out the evil in Winesap. C.M. Waggoner’s <strong>The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society </strong>is a stunning blend of genres, a dark supernatural adventure masquerading as a cozy mystery—and by the time readers realize this, they, like Sherry, are too deeply entrenched in the case to let it go. Waggoner infuses the pages with darkly humorous scenes and snappy dialogue, as well as unexpected magical touches that hearken back to the author’s previous fantasy novels, a combination that’s perfect for fans of horror tropes as well as lovers of mystery. Sherry Pinkwhistle is a sleuth to be reckoned with, and beneath her frumpy and soft exterior lies a pleasant surprise: a clever, determined heroine who will stop at nothing to protect the place she calls home and the people who live there. </p> <p class="has-text-align-left"><em>—Stephanie Cohen-Perez</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="250" height="311" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154035/eerielegends-250x311.jpg" alt="Eerie Legends by Ricardo Diseño book jacket" class="wp-image-207924" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154035/eerielegends-250x311.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154035/eerielegends-750x932.jpg 750w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154035/eerielegends-125x155.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154035/eerielegends-768x954.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154035/eerielegends.jpg 966w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208071">Eerie Legends </a></strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are: Circling up with friends and family for a night of scary stories</em></p> <p><strong>Eerie Legends: An Illustrated Exploration of Creepy Creatures, the Paranormal, and Folklore From Around the World</strong> arrives like Halloween candy, just in time for the spookiest season of the year. Austin, Texas-based artist Ricardo Diseño’s bold, offbeat illustrations don’t simply complement these spine-tingling stories, they lead the way. Each chapter blends elements of fiction and nonfiction, and includes a corresponding full-page illustration that stands on its own as a fully realized piece of art. The horror elements here are plenty scary, but skew toward the creature-feature end of the spectrum—think Universal Studio monsters, or even Troma’s <em>The Toxic Avenger</em>. The chapter on Krampus details the yuletide terror’s appearance with frightening specificity: “Part man, part goat, and part devil. . . . His tongue is red, forked, creepy, and always whipping around.” Diseño’s hoofed monster, straight out of the Blumhouse cinematic universe, is shown in the midst of abducting a child. Each chapter ends with a campfire-style tale about the designated monster, written with Lovecraftian zeal by Steve Mockus. As an added incentive, the cover glows in the dark—a feature I hadn’t noticed until after I fell asleep with it on my bedside table. Talk about eerie.</p> <p class="has-text-align-left"><em>—Laura Hutson Hunter</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="250" height="378" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154212/empusium-250x378.jpg" alt="The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk book jacket" class="wp-image-207930" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154212/empusium-250x378.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154212/empusium-728x1100.jpg 728w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154212/empusium-125x189.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154212/empusium-768x1160.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/22154212/empusium.jpg 795w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></figure></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=208127">★ The Empusium</a></strong></h2> <p><em>Read if your Halloween plans are: A hike contemplating the macabre beauty of seasonal decay—be sure to leave the woods before dark!</em></p> <p>Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s fabulous novel, <strong>The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story</strong>, opens in 1913, when Polish 24-year-old Mieczyslaw Wojnicz arrives in the village of Görbersdorf, Germany, to be treated for tuberculosis. Tokarczuk is known for her penchant for the mythical and her deft, dark satirical wit, and as the subtitle, “A Health Resort Horror Story,” would lead readers to hope, the forests above the village whisper and echo with eerie sounds. The narration seems to come from ghostly entities who at times “vacate the house via the chimney or the chinks between the slate roof tiles—and then gaze from afar, from above.” A cemetery in a nearby town discloses evidence of a ritual killing every November. It is September, and the clock is ticking. Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, <strong>The Empusium</strong> is about the rigid patriarchal world of pre-WWI Europe, and the tension between rationality and emotion. It is also about a young person coming of age—like Thomas Mann’s <em>The Magic Mountain</em>, from which it draws inspiration. Facing a threat he does not understand, Mieczyslaw responds to the mysteries around him with curiosity and seeks his own way forward. 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data-id="105df504" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/american-scary-jeremy-dauber-book-review/">American Scary</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/amanda-haggardbookpage-contributor-com/">Amanda Haggard</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" 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class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Any horror writer doing their job knows how to tap into the fears that plague us most. Jeremy Dauber’s <strong>American Scary:</strong> <strong>A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond</strong> provides a robust account of how art has reflected American dread for centuries. As it turns out, our history is rife with foundational fear, making it prime territory for some scary storytelling. </p> <p>Dauber starts his “tour of American fear” with our country’s bloody beginnings and proclivity for blaming the devil for everything from bad weather to miscarriage (hello, Salem!). He then passes through slavery, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War and beyond to more contemporary paranoias reflected in film: murderous technology (<em>The Terminator</em>), individual indifference (the Final Destination series) and surveillance (<em>Paranormal Activity</em>), to name a few. </p> <p>One of his strongest examples illuminates the anxieties of women living in the late 19th century with Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.” In the story, when a woman is told that her husband has died in an accident, her reaction is one of great, unexpected joy and an overwhelming sense of liberation. Just when you think that’s the end of the tale, she discovers the news was given in error: Her husband is still very much alive. The tale ends with her death, which somehow feels less tragic than her loss of freedom. “Chopin’s most pressing contributions to the American fearfulness,” writes Dauber, “. . . consist of the suggestion that liberation, at least for women, is impossible; that, in the end, that sort of awakening . . . is but an illusion.”</p> <p>Clocking in at over 400 pages with an at-times academic approach,<strong> American Scary</strong> may come off a bit intimidating at first. But for lovers of all things macabre, the book is worth its weight. Dauber’s attention to the details of myriad cultural touchstones, both famous and obscure, will entice those who care to tiptoe deeper into the darkest of the dark. Dauber acknowledges as well that things in the real world are often scarier than the stories we tell; it’s not a new take, but it’s one he makes exceptionally well. </p> <p><strong>American Scary</strong>’s greatest success is making readers consider what art may be born of our late-night anxieties. 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class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/harvey-freedenberg/">Harvey Freedenberg</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=harvey-freedenberg" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Harvey Freedenberg</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you believe that reality television began with a naked Richard Hatch strolling on a beach in Borneo in the first season of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Survivor</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2000, longtime </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Yorker</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> television critic Emily Nussbaum’s </span><b>Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will provide a necessary corrective. While giving Mark Burnett’s “breakthrough for the reality genre” its due, Nussbaum traces that genre back to its roots in shows like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Queen for a Day</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which made the leap from radio to TV in 1956, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Candid Camera</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which did the same in 1948. Her lively survey of the now ubiquitous and endlessly controversial televised product is thoroughly researched and comprehensive, and for aficionados of television and pop culture in general, simply plain fun. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though she recognizes it’s ripe for highbrow skewering, Nussbaum approaches her subject with an admirable degree of objectivity. She’s intent on providing a balanced assessment, acknowledging reality television’s often exploitative aspects, while arguing that there is “a lot of glory and beauty” in the way it has tackled formerly taboo topics and brought previously underrepresented groups into the spotlight. Above all, she’s succeeded in her goal of telling this sometimes sordid, sometimes exuberant story “through the voices of the people who built it,” including both its key creators and its participants.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beginning in 1947, and concluding with her account of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Apprentice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Nussbaum proceeds in chronological fashion, methodically assessing reality-based shows that differed widely in their content, sophistication and quality. She goes behind the scenes of what the television industry euphemistically calls “unscripted programming” in an effort to explain the variety of subject matter within the genre and analyze with an experienced eye what makes these shows succeed or fail. One of her most interesting explorations is an extended retrospective on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">An American Family</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the groundbreaking 1973 cinema verité show that brought audiences into the home of the aptly named Loud family. But she’s equally curious and illuminating about more contemporary fare, like the longest-running reality show ever, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cops</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Readers who have come to rely upon Emily Nussbaum for smart and well-written television criticism will devour </span><b>Cue the Sun!</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Reality television is here to stay, and anyone who wants to understand what makes it so appealing, and at times so problematic, will find this book an excellent starting point. </span></p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Emily Nussbaum’s illuminating <b>Cue the Sun!</b> tells the sometimes sordid, sometimes exuberant story of reality 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elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=priscilla-kipp" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Priscilla Kipp</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>When Deborah Paredez describes the women she awards diva status as “extraordinary, unruly, fabulous,” she is just getting started. In tributes as impassioned and exuberant as any of her subjects, the college professor and poet offers a diverse collection of women to be celebrated and emulated. <strong>American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous</strong> is the grand platform Paredez creates for her stars as she tells their stories, bedecked with her own scintillating flourishes. </p> <p>Paredez memorializes divas at a propulsive pace. Here is the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz; the effervescent and doomed Selena; Tina Turner performing “Proud Mary” with “inimitable ferocity”; Rita Moreno, on-fire dancer and vengeful victim in the movie <em>West Side Story</em>; Venus and Serena Williams, “defying the naysayers” and dominating the courts; Aretha Franklin, “a queen bee dripping with so much nectar” at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. These iconic women, both here and gone, have earned their diva status and, Paredez insists, stand as beacons of feminism for future generations.</p> <p>Divas, by Paredez’s definition, are “strong, complicated, imperfect, virtuosic women who last and last and last.” But competing definitions of divas have made their way into the culture. <em>Newsweek</em> cautioned parents against “Generation Diva” in 2009, and divas, “once synonymous with virtuosity, became symbols of vitriol.” Meanwhile, tween icons like Miley Cyrus—whose exploits as Hannah Montana came “adorned with sparkly merchandise”—were on the rise. Young girls have learned to dress, dance and perform as the stars they yearn to be. Paredez wonders, has a diva instead become “a means of convincing girls that singing along to a power ballad in a sequined T-shirt emblazoned with ‘Li’l Diva’ equals actual power”? The downside to such youthful appropriation becomes clear by contrast: The women whose careers Paredez showcases in <strong>American Diva</strong> are real and powerful in their sheer fearless embrace of their own best selves—rendering moot any worshipful imitation.</p> <p>Paredez doesn’t hold back, and is especially startling in her candor about her own impetuous coming of age. Bookending this star-studded lineup is the author’s own beloved Lucia, the aunt who introduced her to all things diva: Dress up, dance, sing or ace your serve—and always accessorize. The rest—success, money, fame, love—will happen only if you are strong enough to make it so.</p> <p></p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">The exuberant <b>American Diva</b> celebrates “extraordinary, unruly, fabulous” women who earned their diva status and stood the test of time.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/american-diva-deborah-paredez-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> 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class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/you-are-what-you-watch-walt-hickey-book-review/">You Are What You Watch</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/linda-m-castellitto/">Linda M. Castellitto</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=linda-m-castellitto" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Linda M. Castellitto</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p><em>Insider</em> deputy editor Walt Hickey won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. His wide-ranging, captivating <strong>You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything</strong> makes it easy to see why.</p> <p>The average American spends three-plus hours a day consuming media. “Across a lifetime,” Hickey writes, “that’s 22 percent of our time on Earth!” No wonder we’re curious about how media affects us. He asserts that, contrary to those who consider our favorite media a “bogeyman, a brain melter, a violence inciter, a waste,” it actually is “complex, fascinating, and often rather good.”</p> <p>Hickey fascinates as he demystifies pop culture, sharing the outcomes of his experiments and studies. He’s a data journalist, and cheeky and informative visuals—charts, graphs, maps and little photos of famous people’s heads—bolster his pro-pop-culture assertions and illuminate personal stories, such as when he subjected his nervous system to a “Jaws” rewatch to discern which scenes most affected him. Colorful charts like “Movies Make People Exhale the Same Chemicals at the Same Times” bring his research into focus. He notes that when “The Hunger Games” film debuted in 2012, USA Archery’s merchandise sales quintupled. Similarly, the premieres of 1943’s “Lassie Come Home” and 1992’s “Beethoven” were both followed by spikes in the popularity of collies and Saint Bernards.</p> <p>The author’s keen eye for detail and ability to see connections across genres enliven the narrative beyond theory and talking points. From the WWE to the Tax Reform Act of 1976, Scooby-Doo to geopolitics, Hickey offers a bounty of enthusiasm for our favorite stories.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Hickey champions pop culture with a cornucopia of studies, experiments and visuals in <b>You Are What You Watch</b>.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/you-are-what-you-watch-walt-hickey-book-review/"> <span 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href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/arts-culture/" style="color: #71b99c">Arts & Culture</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-105df504 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="105df504" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/goth-history-lol-tolhurst-book-review/">Goth: A History</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/catherine-hollis/">Catherine Hollis</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=catherine-hollis" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Catherine Hollis</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Following on the success of his 2017 memoir, <em>Cured</em>, Lol Tolhurst returns with what he calls a “memoir of a subculture.” <strong>Goth: A History</strong> is Tolhurst’s compendious exploration of the music, art, literature and fashion that made up the dark side of post-punk. The Cure—which he co-founded as drummer with Robert Smith and Michael Dempsey—is often seen as one of the instigators of the movement, alongside bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division. Richly illustrated with flyers and photos from Tolhurst’s private collection, <strong>Goth</strong> is a coffee table book for the discriminating vampire.</p> <p>Goth was always more than black eyeliner and black clothes; in Tolhurst’s reading, it reflects the bleak social and political context of Margaret Thatcher’s England. As a philosophy, it suggests a melancholic point of view and a willingness to contemplate obsessive love, madness and death. In <strong>Goth</strong>, Tolhurst catalogs the poets and artists whose work appeals to those who also love goth music. Sylvia Plath’s novel <em>The Bell Jar</em> was a massive influence on Tolhurst, as were the poets T.S. Eliot and Anne Sexton. Emily Bronte’s <em>Wuthering Heights</em> is obviously goth, as are the death- and madness-drenched poems of Charles Baudelaire. David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Marc Bolan of T. Rex each have goth elements and were also early influences on Tolhurst.</p> <p>Inevitably, a good part of this book focuses on Tolhurst’s time with The Cure as the drummer and later keyboardist. (He left the band in 1989). He dwells on The Cure’s three early albums, culminating in the magisterial fourth, “Pornography,” as exemplary goth music. But he is also generous in his assessment of other bands, tracing the continuation of goth music from the post-punk era in England to the Los Angeles goth scene and beyond. Structured as mini essays, <strong>Goth</strong> can feel disjointed, and Tolhurst at times is repetitive. But fans will find themselves immersed. It’s a beautiful book, full of concert photos, portraits and band flyers. Tolhurst is a passionate storyteller and an elder goth statesman worth listening to.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst explores the influences and impact of goth music and culture in an immersive new coffee table book.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/goth-history-lol-tolhurst-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> 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class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/sarah-mccraw-crow/">Sarah McCraw Crow</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=sarah-mccraw-crow" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Sarah McCraw Crow</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>In her engaging <strong>Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma</strong>, memoirist and critic Claire Dederer wrestles with a complicated, sometimes slippery subject: What do we do with art—movies, novels, songs, paintings—we once loved, and sometimes still love, from men we now consider monsters? “I started keeping a list,” she writes. “Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd Mayweather, though if we start listing athletes we’ll never stop.” The book grew out of an essay Dederer wrote in 2017 for <em>The Paris Review</em> that went viral in the early days of #MeToo. Here Dederer considers the subject more thoroughly in a series of connected essays from a number of angles, walking readers through her thinking and experiences as a reader, viewer, parent, friend and longtime critic.</p> <p>Dederer’s definition of an art monster is straightforward: “They did or said something awful, and made something great. The awful thing disrupts the great work; we can’t watch or listen to or read the great work without remembering the awful thing.” As she asks who qualifies as an art monster, and whether female artists can be monsters, Dederer reminds us how our 20th-century concept of “genius” was bound up with masculinity, and often with brutal behavior toward women (with Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso as prime examples).</p> <p>But what Dederer really wants to get at has to do with our responses to these men and their art; she wants to tell the story of the audience. Reconsidering Woody Allen’s movies, particularly <em>Manhattan</em>, in light of his marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, for example, she notes how her male critic friends have continued to see his movies as works of genius, while she and other women have responded quite differently.</p> <p>One striking chapter looks at our responses to renowned artists Richard Wagner, Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, noting the way we shrug off their antisemitic and racist comments because it was a different time. “One of the great problems faced by audiences is named the Past. The Past is a vast terrible place where they didn’t know better. Where monstrous behaviors were accepted,” Dederer writes. Referencing a range of sources, she argues nimbly that these artists did in fact know better.</p> <p>Despite the heavy subject matter, <strong>Monsters</strong> is neither rant nor sermon. Dederer is not only an incisive researcher and writer, she’s also conversational, approachable and funny. The book seamlessly incorporates bits of memoir—Dederer’s life in the Pacific Northwest, her experiences as a critic and a woman, her failures—that have informed her critical thinking. Yes, <strong>Monsters</strong> is a worthy addition to contemporary literary criticism, but more than that, it’s a very enjoyable book about a thorny, elusive subject.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">An enjoyable book about a thorny, elusive subject, <b>Monsters</b> is an incisive work of literary criticism about art created by men we now consider monsters.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" 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elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/rachel-hoge/">Rachel Hoge</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=rachel-hoge" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Rachel Hoge</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Aisha Harris, co-host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour” and a writer for <em>Slate</em> and <em>The New York Times</em>, is the pop culture maven millennials have been waiting for. That’s why her debut book, <strong>Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me</strong>, will be flying off the shelves faster than Taylor Swift presale tickets. Part pop culture analysis, part social commentary, and completely and intrinsically personal, <strong>Wannabe</strong> tackles topics both internal and external. At the forefront are societal issues such as positive representation versus harmful stereotypes in media. Harris’ identity as a Black woman also shapes the narrative as she deftly explores the intersection of pop culture and politics, noting how our political climate changes the way we tell stories.</p> <p>This book will appeal to readers wishing to go beyond the consumption of media for entertainment’s sake by helping them engage in a socially conscious dialogue. But despite its intellectual value, <strong>Wannabe</strong> isn’t written for academics. Harris’ audience is anyone who wishes to broaden their understanding of pop culture’s significance to society, and the accessibility of her writing helps to achieve that goal. The humor incorporated throughout the book is truly a delight, and each chapter is chock full of so many witty asides that Harris, were she a television writer, could be the new Amy Sherman-Palladino.</p> <p>But the book truly shines when it offers us a peek inside Harris’ psyche, providing examples of specific artists, actors and authors who have impacted her life. From unlikely childhood heroines such as tomboy Kristy from <em>The Baby-Sitters Club</em> and loyal punk Ashley Spinelli from the cartoon “Recess,” to the incredible impact of the MTV and VH1 R&B era (looking at you, Toni Braxton), Harris explores how her younger self gravitated toward subversive female icons who redefined the meanings of femininity and strength. As the years passed, other content challenged Harris’ views of womanhood and sexuality, from the sensual Nola Darling in <em>She’s Gotta Have It</em> to the four iconic women who defined a sex-positive generation in “Sex and the City.” Harris also analyzes present-day pop culture, from flawed female leads in TV shows like “Fleabag,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and “Insecure” to pop stars like Rihanna and Megan Thee Stallion who are unapologetically sensual, commanding and <em>fun</em>. When Harris applies her refined, journalistic scrutiny to subjective nostalgia, the behind-the-scenes magic of <strong>Wannabe</strong> becomes truly clear.</p> <p>So in conclusion—<em>taps mic</em>—Imma let y’all finish, but this book is the best pop culture guide of all time!</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">When Aisha Harris applies her journalistic scrutiny to the subversive pop culture icons who shaped her millennial upbringing and worldview, the magic of <b>Wannabe</b> comes alive.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div 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</div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/sarah-mccraw-crow/">Sarah McCraw Crow</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=sarah-mccraw-crow" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Sarah McCraw Crow</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>“I started my life with one thing: science. Astronomy, to be specific. And I dove into it,” writes Aomawa Shields in the introduction to her memoir, <strong>Life on Other Planets</strong>. “Then I found something else I liked: the arts. Acting, to be specific. So I dove into that instead. Neither one by itself felt fully right.” </p> <p>Beginning with her initial glimmers of love for the stars and planets as a preteen, Shields tells her story chronologically, with writing that is immediate, sometimes poetic. In a scene rich in detail, she recounts the snowy winter night when, as a high school student at Phillips Exeter Academy, she first glimpsed Jupiter and its moons through a telescope. “That I could measure something in space, just by looking—this was the shattered ceiling of the Earth, ascending up and through the atmosphere into nothing,” she writes. At MIT and then the University of Wisconsin, Shields steeped herself in astronomy. But the pull of acting, which she discovered in high school playing the role of Truvy in <em>Steel Magnolias</em>, never faded, and she eventually put her work in STEM on hold to pursue an M.F.A. in acting at UCLA.</p> <p>Shields’ nonlinear path through science, acting, the arts and back to astronomy (she returned to graduate school at age 35 and is now a tenured professor of astronomy and physics at UC Irvine) makes up the rest of the memoir’s narrative. Yes, she faced a bevy of struggles: As a Black woman, Shields was buffeted by racism in graduate school, as well as by self-doubt and impostor syndrome. She’s also candid about the sometimes-difficult balance of marriage, family and work, and her worry about whether she’s “Black enough” in certain settings. Throughout, Shields is an illuminating guide to her own idiosyncratic journey, seamlessly unpacking complicated concepts about stars and planets.</p> <p>In <strong>Life on Other Planets</strong>, Shields has written an inspiring memoir about charting her own path and merging her scientific and artistic pursuits. Along the way, she also gives us glimpses of the wonder she’s found while studying the cosmos.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Astrobiologist Aomawa Shields’ <b>Life on Other Planets</b> is an inspiring memoir about charting her own path and merging the two worlds of science and art.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/life-on-other-planets-aomawa-shields-book-review/"> <span 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elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/robert-weibezahl/">Robert Weibezahl</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=robert-weibezahl" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Robert Weibezahl</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Patti Hartigan’s <strong>August Wilson: A Life</strong> is the first comprehensive biography of the great American playwright, who died 18 years ago at the age of 60. Hartigan, a theater critic and arts reporter who knew Wilson professionally, has done her homework in parsing Wilson’s complicated story from many layers of half-truths and myths, some of which were propagated by the legendary raconteur himself during his lifetime. The result is an even-handed and absorbing exploration of a sui generis artist who followed his own rules both in the theater and in his personal life.</p> <p>An autodidact who learned to read by age 4, Wilson was born Freddy Kittel and grew up in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the largely Black neighborhood that he would immortalize in his plays. Wilson’s father was white—and for complex psychological reasons still left largely unexplored in this book, Wilson spent his life convinced he had a different white father than his siblings. However, Wilson identified exclusively as Black. His mother arranged the best education she could for her brilliant son, but he repeatedly faced skepticism and racism, and he never finished high school. Aspiring to be a poet, Wilson dove into the nascent Black arts scene in Pittsburgh, where his writing talents were put to use in local theater productions. Confident in his abilities and focused on his ambitions, he began sending unwieldy scripts to the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.</p> <p>When he was finally accepted with what was at the time a four-and-a-half-hour version of <em>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</em>, Wilson quickly took the theater world by storm. Just a few years later, he was on Broadway and had won the first of two Pulitzer Prizes. The playwright, known for his powerful and poetic monologues, soon embarked on a daunting project: a 10-play cycle that would hold a mirror up to the experiences of Black people in 20th century America, decade by decade. He finished the last play just months before his premature death.</p> <blockquote><p><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=193878">In her five-year-long excavation of August Wilson’s family history, Patti Hartigan found spine-tingling similarities between the stories the celebrated playwright created and the actual past he never fully knew. </a></p></blockquote> <p>The man Hartigan profiles is a fascinating bundle of contradictions: a generous, congenial companion who could at times seethe with rage; a lover of women who often gave them short shrift in his plays; a storytelling seer who made well-drawn specifics of the Black experience speak to audiences across racial barriers. <strong>August Wilson: A Life</strong> is a worthy and overdue first biography that will trigger new conversations about a magnificent playwright and the origins of his talent.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><b>August Wilson: A Life</b> is an even-handed and absorbing exploration of a sui generis artist who followed his own rules both in the theater and in his personal life.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/august-wilson-book-review/"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"> <span class="elementor-button-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="arrow_long" data-name="arrow long" width="38.92" height="14" viewBox="0 0 38.92 14"><path id="Path" 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id="post-193815" class="elementor-post elementor-grid-item ecs-post-loop post-193815 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-0823-top10 genres-arts-culture genres-literature genres-nonfiction genres-social-science"> <div data-elementor-type="loop-item" data-elementor-id="182" class="elementor elementor-182 e-loop-item e-loop-item-193815 post-193815 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-reviews tag-0823-top10 genres-arts-culture genres-literature genres-nonfiction genres-social-science" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library" data-custom-edit-handle="1"> <div class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-46b0932 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="46b0932" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container 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class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/literature/" style="color: #71b99c">Literature</a><a class="taxo-genres-link null" href="https://www.bookpage.com/genres/arts-culture/" style="color: #71b99c">Arts & Culture</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-105df504 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="105df504" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/great-white-bard-book-review/">The Great White Bard</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Review by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/anne-bartlett/">Anne Bartlett</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-43fdb172 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info" data-id="43fdb172" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="post-info.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul class="elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info"> <li class="elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7e1b6ce elementor-inline-item" itemprop="about"> <span class="elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms"> <span class="elementor-post-info__item-prefix">by </span> <span class="elementor-post-info__terms-list"> <a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?taxonomy=contributor&term=anne-bartlett" class="elementor-post-info__terms-list-item">Anne Bartlett</a> </span> </span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Even though Shakespeare refers to the great Egyptian queen as both “tawny” and “black” and his English contemporaries understood Egyptians to be dark-skinned, why did a major British production of <em>Antony and Cleopatra </em>not cast a Black Cleopatra until Doña Croll in 1991? Because too many of the Bard’s admirers have failed to address, or even notice, race in his plays.</p> <p>Farah Karim-Cooper, a Pakistani American professor of literature and Shakespeare studies at King’s College London, challenges that willful ignorance in <strong>The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race</strong>. Karim-Cooper, who also serves as Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, argues that the bad alternatives to an honest conversation about race in Shakespeare are either to dismiss his work or stubbornly cling to the stale tradition of brushing aside race—both of which oppose her desire for the plays to speak to a wider public.</p> <p>Aiming to include non-academic readers in her audience, Karim-Cooper takes a close look at characters who are clearly people of color: Othello, Aaron the Moor and the Prince of Morocco. She considers more ambiguous cases, like Cleopatra and Caliban, and also ranges farther afield to depictions of otherness such as the witches in <em>Macbeth</em>, noting how Shakespeare routinely relies upon racialized imagery and dehumanizing language: white/fair equals good; dark equals bad and ugly.</p> <p>Like his contemporaries, Shakespeare employs racist and antisemitic tropes in his characters, yet also writes them as multifaceted individuals. “Shakespeare often challenges us to hold two contradictory views simultaneously,” Karim-Cooper states. Indeed, Othello is brave and forthright as well as lethally jealous; we hear Caliban’s side of the story as well as Prospero’s. The evidence of Black people and interracial marriage in Tudor England introduces the possibility of Shakespeare having actually encountered people of color. And Karim-Cooper’s analysis of <em>The Merchant of Venice</em> might make one wonder whether Shakespeare knew any Jews passing as Christians for safety.</p> <p>Our perception of Shakespeare’s work is ever-evolving: It wasn’t until the 18th century that he was even glamorized as “the Bard” by theater star David Garrick. Karim-Cooper’s candid discussion of more nuanced and informed approaches to interpreting Shakespeare can only help his work endure.</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Karim-Cooper's candid discussion of more informed and nuanced approaches to interpreting Shakespeare can only help the Bard’s work endure.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" href="https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/great-white-bard-book-review/"> <span 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August Wilson</a></h4> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d26d0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="d26d0e4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode"><span class="coauthor-descriptor">Interview by </span> <span class="coauthor-byline"><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/contributor/robert-weibezahl/">Robert Weibezahl</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9937e68 trim-txt elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="9937e68" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>Patti Hartigan was a self-described “baby theater critic” when she met August Wilson in 1987. The two were chatting at the National Critics Institute at the famed O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and Wilson asked if Hartigan had seen his play <em>Fences</em>, which was then the talk of Broadway. “Being green and subsisting on a freelancer’s pitiful wages,” she recalls in her debut book, <strong>August Wilson: A Life</strong>, “I blurted out, ‘My mother saw it, but I can’t afford a ticket.’ The minute I said it, I wished I could take it back.” But the next day, Hartigan received a note that two tickets would be waiting for her at the box office.</p> <p>This act of generosity toward a fledgling critic was emblematic of Wilson, Hartigan would discover. After landing at the <em>Boston Globe</em> as theater critic and arts reporter, she built a rapport with Wilson over the years, talking with him whenever he opened a play at the city’s Huntington Theatre. Then in January 2005, with Wilson poised to complete his monumental 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle—one play about Black life in America set in every decade in the 20th century—Hartigan flew to Seattle to interview him for a celebratory piece. Neither she nor Wilson yet knew that a fast-spreading cancer would lead to his death just a few months later. He managed to complete the final play, <em>Radio Golf</em>, under great physical and mental strain, and when he died in October 2005, the world mourned the loss of a voice that had changed the landscape of the American theater.</p> <blockquote><p>“He didn’t want to be the first. But certainly, in carving out room in American theater for Black playwrights . . . he paved the way.”</p></blockquote> <p>But “time passed and there was no biography,” Hartigan says in a video call. “I decided someone has to do this, and because I knew him, I decided to jump in.” The first-time biographer spent five years researching and writing <strong>August Wilson: A Life</strong>, an accomplished work that not only takes full measure of the playwright’s career but also delves into his childhood and ancestry to unearth a family history that Wilson himself did not fully know. Hartigan would even climb a mountain in Spear, North Carolina, where generations of Wilson’s strong-willed antecedents were born. Wilson himself never undertook that journey, saying that he wrote from “the blood’s memory” rather than doing research. Yet again and again, Hartigan found spine-tingling similarities between the stories he created and his family’s actual past.</p> <figure id="attachment_193426" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-193426" style="width: 250px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-193426 size-medium" src="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28164412/MUG-Patti-Hartigan_Credit-Marisa-Ih-250x350.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="350" srcset="https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28164412/MUG-Patti-Hartigan_Credit-Marisa-Ih-250x350.jpg 250w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28164412/MUG-Patti-Hartigan_Credit-Marisa-Ih-750x1051.jpg 750w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28164412/MUG-Patti-Hartigan_Credit-Marisa-Ih-125x175.jpg 125w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28164412/MUG-Patti-Hartigan_Credit-Marisa-Ih-768x1076.jpg 768w, https://t1.bookpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28164412/MUG-Patti-Hartigan_Credit-Marisa-Ih.jpg 857w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-193426" class="wp-caption-text">Patti Hartigan</figcaption></figure> <p>Wilson is largely associated with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specifically its Hill District, where he set all but one play in his monumental cycle. The Hill is where his mother, Daisy, and others in the family settled during the Great Migration, and it’s where Wilson was born in 1945 and grew up. His singular intelligence was apparent from an early age, and Daisy made sure he was educated in the best parochial and public schools. But his intelligence could not shelter him from endemic racism, and after being belittled and undervalued at school, he dropped out at just 15. (Years later, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh awarded the autodidact a high school diploma, an honor he cherished alongside his two Pulitzer Prizes and other awards.)</p> <blockquote><p><a href="https://www.bookpage.com/?p=193747&preview=true">Read our starred review of ‘August Wilson: A Life.’</a></p></blockquote> <p>Wilson’s earliest literary aspiration was as a poet, which Hartigan says is hardly surprising given the soaring poetry of his monologue-driven plays. His move into theater was both accidental and serendipitous, coinciding with the politically fueled Black literary movement of the 1970s, which played out in neighborhood theaters in Pittsburgh. Wilson was driven, and when he learned about the O’Neill Conference—arguably the preeminent play development opportunity available at the time—he began submitting a play each year. He was met with rejection after rejection until 1982, when he received the coveted telegram from artistic director Lloyd Richards. <em>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</em> had been selected.</p> <p>Richards was perhaps the most influential Black theater maker of the age—he was the first African American to direct a play on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s <em>A Raisin in the Sun</em>—and “a presence like no other,” says Hartigan. He took Wilson under his wing and played a major role in the playwright’s progress. When asked if she thought there would have been an August Wilson without a Lloyd Richards, Hartigan admits there is no way of knowing, but probably not. “The two of them fed each other. August would come with a play that was four and a half hours long, and Lloyd could cut it down and streamline it and ask the right questions,” she says. “But the relationship was key for both men. Lloyd’s career had a resurgence when he began working with August.” The professional falling-out that came later, which Hartigan thoughtfully chronicles, was painful. “Both were right and both were wrong, and it’s a tragedy. Yet you can praise the relationship that was.”</p> <p>Hartigan, clearly a great admirer of Wilson and his work, is nonetheless forthright in her appraisal of both. She does not shy away from portraying the playwright’s flaws as a man, a husband, a father. More than once she addresses the frequent observation that, with a few notable exceptions, Wilson’s female characters are weak. “I think the criticism is warranted,” she says. “Yet I’ve seen later productions where the women are painted in by just the direction [of the play]. So I think there might be a little more to the women [in Wilson’s plays] than we initially thought.”</p> <p>The August Wilson Estate declined to grant permission to Hartigan to quote from his intimate letters or from some of his early writings, a decision she regrets because “paraphrasing just can’t do him justice.” Yet she manages to capture Wilson’s voice well. “He didn’t want to be exceptionalized,” she says. “He didn’t want to be the first. But certainly, in carving out room in American theater for Black playwrights—and the subject matter that he was able to bring to the stage—he paved the way.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-001fe5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="001fe5f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-shortcode">Patti Hartigan spent five years researching and writing <b>August Wilson</b>: A Life, an accomplished work that takes full measure of the playwright’s career and life.</div> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4c6ac7a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="4c6ac7a0" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"> <a class="elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm" 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