Book Marks logo Our five-alarm fire of fabulous reviews this week includes Patrick Cottrell on Tracy O’Neill’s Woman of Interest , Phillip Maciak on Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun , Anthony Domestico on Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life , Lauren LeBlanc on Olivia Laing’s The Garden Against Time , and Meara Sharma on Rosalind Brown’s Practice . Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Woman of Interest: A Memoir Cover “O’Neill elevates the subgenre, producing a memoir that is simultaneously an investigation, a noir with a femme fatale, and a darkly humorous tale of what happens when one meets the person who has everything and nothing to do with one’s life. Woman of Interest is searching, yes, but more attuned to language and paranoia than others of its genre … Although O’Neill’s memoir is essentially concerned with her mother in Korea, the titular woman of interest, we also get a sense of the other mother in a gorgeously melancholic recounting of O’Neill’s upbringing by her adoptive family in New England … Instead of the reparative gestures of a traditional adoptee memoir, Woman of Interest offers something darker, colder, more fraught, and ultimately, singular and transcendent.” –Patrick Cottrell on Tracy O’Neill’s Woman of Interest: A Memoir ( BOMB ) Cue the Sun! “Tracking the development of reality TV as a genre from the early hidden-camera shows of the 1950s to the sprawling empires of today, the book gives us glimpses into the fraught production of these shows, their divided receptions, and the melancholy biographies of some of the thousands of people who have appeared on these shows only to emerge as strange, fractured mutant versions of themselves, no longer TV characters, but certainly no longer the people they were before. Nussbaum has spent much of her career arguing for the importance and seriousness of television, even its status as an art form. Reality TV puts her thesis to the test: Sure, The Sopranos is art, but Real Housewives ? It’s an old argument, even a tired one, but that doesn’t […]
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