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A review by neerajams
The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass
3.0
Starts off with wonderful pieces, then trails off to the end. While all of the pieces were insightful in their own ways (though I still think the one about poker was a boring waste of space), my favorites were:
- Host, David Foster Wallace's fantastic, hilarious look at conservative talk radio
- Among the Thugs, Bill Buford's disturbing, drunken, participatory account of British soccor hooligans
- Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg, Malcolm Gladwell's take on how we know the people that we know and why it matters. I know he often over-simplifies, but I still like it
- and Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities, where Michael Lewis voices my thoughts on the silliness of the stock market practically verbatim while telling the story of this crazy, day-trading teenager.
Of all of them, David Foster Wallace's is the one you shouldn't miss.
- Host, David Foster Wallace's fantastic, hilarious look at conservative talk radio
- Among the Thugs, Bill Buford's disturbing, drunken, participatory account of British soccor hooligans
- Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg, Malcolm Gladwell's take on how we know the people that we know and why it matters. I know he often over-simplifies, but I still like it
- and Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities, where Michael Lewis voices my thoughts on the silliness of the stock market practically verbatim while telling the story of this crazy, day-trading teenager.
Of all of them, David Foster Wallace's is the one you shouldn't miss.