March 20 was quite the issue. We've already discussed Jill Lepore's "Pay Dirt" and the reviews are interesting. A very long article that I nevertheless enjoyed was "Magic Realism" by D. T. Max about a novelist named H. G. Carillo who was African-American from Detroit but created a new identity for himself as a Cuban. The fiction was good: "False Star" by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. There was even a funny passage in the S&M "How to Tell If You're in a TV Show" by Emma Rathbone. Everyone and everything seemed to be represented: women, seeds, Gay authors, Indigenous people, Climate Change, caterpillars. Oh I forgot "Abolish the Poor" by Margaret Talbot. Also good. I didn't realize that perks of home ownership play a big role in keeping the well-off rich and the poor poor. Homeowners got $193 billion in 2020. I think I'm going to get at least one of the books she reviews.
Jeff, I wondered what you thought of the ad for Philadelphia that said "Betsy was the real badass."