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A series of essays by two noted left of center personalities in the South that looks at what went wrong and how we got to a place in the county where 40% of the electorate are flat out racists.

Hint - they were always there.

It's a short read looking at Jim Crow, Reagan and the rise of the Republican party, the relationship between evangelical churches and the GOP, and Trump (of course). They try to find some reason for optimism, but I didn't finish the book feeling optimistic.

Part sci-fi with a time travel angle, part noir detective story, part meditation on dealing with grief, and 100% fun story. Rob also wrote The Warehouse, which I read and enjoyed last year.

A series of essays by two noted left of center personalities in the South that looks at what went wrong and how we got to a place in the county where 40% of the electorate are flat out racists.

Hint - they were always there.

It's a short read looking at Jim Crow, Reagan and the rise of the Republican party, the relationship between evangelical churches and the GOP, and Trump (of course). They try to find some reason for optimism, but I didn't finish the book feeling optimistic.

Part sci-fi with a time travel angle, part noir detective story, part meditation on dealing with grief, and 100% fun story. Rob also wrote The Warehouse, which I read and enjoyed last year.

Chapter one features a conversation between Tommy and penis. Chapter two is Tommy's sex tips. It improves after that, but not enough. Been enjoying Pam & Tommy on Hulu but this book is unreadable.

Razorblade Tears is set in SW Virginia, same as Cosby's previous book, the universally acclaimed Blacktop Wasteland. The story mines some of the same territory too, as our protagonist is a black ex-con who has turned his life around and is now a responsible family man, although he is estranged from his gay son who is happily married with a small child in Richmond.

Shit hits the fan when his son and son-in-law are brutally murdered in what is obviously a professional hit. After two months of nothing from the cops Ike teams up with the dad of his son-in-law, a redneck ex-con grifter who also failed to accept his son for who he is. Shit gets very violent quickly as they get mixed up with a white supremacist motorcycle gang and a corrupt public official on the way to the truth, and a very high body count.