By THE NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 26, 2019 The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969. Click the star icon to create and share your own list of favorites or books to read. Vivian Gornick Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987 “I remember only the women,” Vivian Gornick writes near the start of her memoir of growing up in the Bronx tenements in the 1940s, surrounded by the blunt, brawling, yearning women of the neighborhood, chief among them her indomitable mother. “I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face. It has taken me 30 years to understand how much of them I understood.” When Gornick’s father died suddenly, she looked in the coffin for so long that she had to be pulled away. That fearlessness suffuses this book; she stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others — at loneliness, sexual malice and the … [Read more...] about The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
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Struggling to Bring the ‘Blue Wave’ to Deep-Red Alabama
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Log In Feature Tabitha Isner has been trying to make a nearly impossible sales pitch to voters — and to the national donor class. Tabitha Isner at a town hall event last month in Montgomery. Credit Credit Glenna Gordon for The New York Times Supported by ByRuth Graham Oct. 17, 2018 Tabitha Isner’s campaign office in Dothan, Ala., is a modest one-story bungalow next to a dog-grooming shop, just across the street from the Shade Tree Mobile Homes Court. When I visited this summer, on a rainy afternoon, the living room was furnished with cheap folding tables and decorated with white boards, homemade posters and a huge Alabama flag. An Instagram-friendly letter-board sign reading GO THE EXTRA MILE was propped on the mantle over a boarded-up fireplace. The candidate herself was getting ready for an event across town, loading up her hybrid hatchback with stacks of fliers and … [Read more...] about Struggling to Bring the ‘Blue Wave’ to Deep-Red Alabama
Police Blotter: Panhandler Gets Foot Run Over By Reluctant Giver; Woman Doesn’t Know Last Name Of Significant Other
Police said a panhandler got his foot run over by a reluctant giver at the Speedway on Lee Highway. An officer was called to the ensuing disorder on the parking lot. After he was able to calm all the parties on the scene down, he was informed that Gary Brooks, who was located in the grass behind the business, had gotten his foot run over by a vehicle in the parking lot. Marcus Taylor, friend of Brooks, and two other witnesses said Brooks was panhandling on the lot when he got into an argument with a customer who would not give him any money. Brooks was standing at the driver’s side door of the customer’s vehicle verbally harassing the driver, the officer was told. Two of the witnesses said Brooks also punched the customer as he was sitting in the vehicle. The customer then placed his vehicle in reverse and pulled away. In the process, he ran over Brooks’ foot. After this occurred, Brooks tossed a drink at the vehicle and then began tearing up the water display in … [Read more...] about Police Blotter: Panhandler Gets Foot Run Over By Reluctant Giver; Woman Doesn’t Know Last Name Of Significant Other
‘What the hell did you do to my daughter?’ He was accused of a crime he swore he never committed; she believed her 4-year-old
ST. PETERSBURG On the evening of the accusation, before the police came, Austin Holcomb walked to his neighbors’ house to get his son. The boy, who was almost 4, had been playing there all afternoon. The neighbors’ house was a wreck. That Saturday, they had been moving furniture, rearranging rooms. "Can you help me for a minute?" the husband asked. "You want a beer?" Four kids were upstairs. Holcomb’s son and his friend’s two boys were playing computer games in a loft. The neighbors’ daughter, 4, had a fever and was huddled in her parents’ bed. Holcomb drank a couple of beers, then helped his friend remove a large mirror from a white dresser. He carried the mirror upstairs, turned on the light in the master bedroom and saw the girl sleeping. He set it by the door, flicked off the light and came back downstairs. But his friend wanted to put the dresser by the door, so Holcomb ran back up to make room. His friend heard the mirror move. Both times, the … [Read more...] about ‘What the hell did you do to my daughter?’ He was accused of a crime he swore he never committed; she believed her 4-year-old
Detroit mayor sues Michigan over high no-fault auto insurance rates
JC Reindl Detroit Free Press Published 5:34 p.m. UTC Aug 23, 2018 Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is turning to the courts to lower Michigan's highest-in-the-nation auto insurance rates after failing to get the state legislature last year to back his preferred overhaul of the no-fault insurance system. Duggan, joined by eight motorists across the state who are also plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit that seeks to have Michigan's no-fault law declared unconstitutional. The lawsuit, against Michigan's insurance director, claims the 1973 no-fault law is unconstitutional because it fails to produce car insurance rates that are "fair and equitable." It asks the court to give the state six months to amend the law so that rates will fall. And if the state can't fix no-fault in that time, Duggan's lawsuit wants the court to declare no-fault "null and … [Read more...] about Detroit mayor sues Michigan over high no-fault auto insurance rates