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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust
Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto
My System: 21st Century Edition
The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love
James Madison: A Biography
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
Granta 124: Travel
Like any compilation of writing, there's that which hits, and that which misses. The theme of this edition of Granta was that of travel; that's a theme I've always found to be problematic for this sort of thing, and this was no exception. There were stories and essays I wanted to enjoy but didn't, and those I was surprised by. The story by Siddhartha Mukherjee was excellent, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the Dave Eggers. I felt the poetry was a little uneven, and suffered in comparison to some of the better efforts. Overall I did enjoy reading this, though I'm glad I did so in a library rather than paying for it; I'd have been a little disappointed to pay the asking price for it.
