Thank you!
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“The Fate Of The Day”, Rick Atkinson, the second book of a trilogy about the American revolutionary war. He’s a very engaging writer.
Just started this, would be an excellent road-trip audio listen. Might save it for that purpose but looks to be hilarious and very engaging.
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Just started Gangsterland series by Tod Goldberg. Looks to be pretty funny and weird. First book: Chicago mobster hitman goes into mafia’s “witness protection” plan/exile as a rabbi in Las Vegas, who is Italian, not Jewish.
Do you hear his voice when reading it? Love his voice. I’ve been re-reading some David Sedaris books. Barrel Fever kills me.
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I’ve read all his books, really love him!
Me, too. I have a very poor attention span, and his mix of stories just kills me. Jesus Shaves was one I’ve just read for the 10,000th time.
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Was it in Calypso, him picking up litter on the road in the little village in England where he lives part time … that he discovered the notwell endowed strap on. I laugh every time I read that part.
We’ve been lucky enough to have seen him twice now in our podunk town, and he’s coming back on my birthday this year (of course we have tix already!).
I mentioned it before elsewhere on this forum, but his book Naked played a not insignificant part in my PIC’s and my dating history 
which we told him about at the occasion of his second visit here & the subsequent book signing.
My PIC also gifted me the *Barrel Fever *audio TAPES I would listen to in my bachelorette pad while doing dishes. Amy Sedaris is an absolute riot doing The Rooster on them.
A classic NYer short and favorite of mine is Possession about him finding the perfect apartment. He’s a riot.
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I just finished The Illegals by Shaun Walker, very long, detailed. Have you seen the Series The Americans? I watched the first half or so and then didn’t have access to finish it.
Non fiction of course.
Just picked this up. Author connects environmental hazards (metal smelters) to serial killers like Ted Bundy and Charles Manson, both who grew up the PNW and were exposed to lead.
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I can relate to “Carl Hiaasen’s FL” even though the Florida of my dreams was John MacDonald’s FL.
I eventually moved to Miami and I always had my eye out for a houseboat named The Busted Flush. The funny thing about MacDonald’s protagonist Travis McGee was that he was a crusty old Korean War vet (at first, later books he seemed to be a Vietnam vet) but he used to just go off on over-development of Florida and the beauty of the natural world vs. the paved world. When “The Deep Blue Goodbye” and “Nightmare in Pink” came out in 1964, that was fairly cutting edge stuff for a detective novel series.
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There’s also Tim Dorsey who rails against development n FL. Not as off the wall and satirical as Hiaasen but development and the environment seems to a wide and reoccurring theme for a few writers.
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I’m currently enjoying A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. It’s a charming story; easy escapist read.
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Interesting.
I watched the tv series, it was very good.
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I started to binge-read all of Towles’s novels, after reading A Gentleman in Moscow. I thought there were only The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, but there are more, drool.
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I’ll have to look for it!
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Yet another eye-opening and infuriating essay.
Talk about a well-read/-lived life.
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