#exit zero

[authorstalker]

My June & July Reads

Food Person, Adam Roberts - Fiction for foodies! I had fun reading this debut novel about a 20-something food writer clumsily navigating her career and love life in NYC. I had even more fun at the book launch at Brooklyn Heights Library, where author Adam Roberts was in conversation with Joanna "Cup of Jo" Goddard. Not to brag, but I appear in not one but two photos on her recap blog post.

All of It Singing, Linda Gregg - I decided to make an effort to read more poetry collections, probably because of all the recent articles that were like, "People used to memorize poems. Now everyone's a fucking idiot." I always like Linda Gregg poems when they come across my social media feeds, so I borrowed this collection of new and selected poems. The book contains the hottest dedication I've ever seen: "For Jack Gilbert: It was like being alive twice."

Olive, Again, Elizabeth Strout - A masterpiece. I maybe loved it even more than Olive Kitteridge, which is one of my favorite books. A story that stands out in my mind is when Olive's adult son visits her with his young children; it really captures, in brutal detail, the expectations vs reality of a family visit.

Exit Zero, Marie-Helene Bertino - A short story collection from today's reigning queen of magical realism. I always love Marie-Helene Bertino, she's just so great!

Heart the Lover, Lily King - Holy lord, Jesus Christ, mark your calendars for September 30 and buy this book. I am not exaggerating when I say it's perfect. It made me cry on the train and on the beach; I could cry again just thinking about certain sentences. I loved it so much that I'm now rereading Writers & Lovers—I simply can't get enough Lily King! Thank you to my coworker Jack for bringing home this galley from the ALA conference in Philly. :)

Written Lives, Javier Marías - Super short, captivating, quirky biographies of a variety of famous writers. This was published in 1992 and is a random recommendation I came across online. I loved it.

[phantomfingers]

Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago, by Christine J. Walley.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Exit Zero: Stories

By Marie-Helene Bertino.

[innocenceinstillness]

I’ve definitely learned a lot about framing and composition, sadly this photo does not reflect my new found knowledge 😪

[toxicseminar]

“Sometimes it’s hard to follow my dad’s ideas. There are so many details about the mills, and a lot of conspiracy theories [...] But it’s easy to see how that could happen. How do you make sense of the story? How could things as concrete and seemingly eternal as the steel mills just disappear?”

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[toxicseminar]

Definition of De-Industrialization – Our online dictionary has De-Industrialization information from Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History dictionary. Encyclopedia.com: English, psychology and medical dictionaries

“Exit Zero is a feature-length documentary film that tells a personal story of the lasting social and environmental impacts of “deindustrialization” and the key role it has played in expanding class inequalities in the United States.”

Description of the Exit Zero film from the Exit Zero website

http://www.exitzeroproject.org/

[heylabodega]

Hi um we're reading Exit Zero by Christine Walley and I didn't know how much I needed an ethnography in less esoteric terminology about the mutability of class and individual class mobility and the discomfort of "straddling" two classes until I read it?

[thetrappedrapunzel]

Exit Zero

"That was a long time ago. Things have changed. You can't keep hanging onto the past." Despite the fact that I left long ago, I realize that for me it's impossible to move on without a full reckoning with that past - Christine J. Walley