http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/02/non-fiction-for-all/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/02/non-fiction-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-37652 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:20:02 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9760#comment-37652 What about Eula Biss’s wonderful Notes from No-Man’s Land? Or David Foster Wallace’s hilarious & sad essay about going on a cruise, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, or his Consider the Lobster.
Or Melissa Faye Greene’s Praying for Sheetrock (“The beautiful and compelling story of a small southern town’s awakening to civil rights and the courageous black man who led the call,” as the cover rightly says). Or, to hear a kind of DJ of war history, Geoff Dyer with his The Missing of the Somme. Or Alan Weisman’s The World without Us, Or Europeana, Patrick Ourednik’s strange, short catalogue of miscellaneous facts calling everything about the 20th century into question.

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