Nonfiction Reviews
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Thank you NetGalley and Lyons Press for the ARC of Melanie Gall’s “Fire Witch,” a biography of the actress Kate Claxton. I was not familiar with Kate Claxton or the Brooklyn Theatre inferno prior to this book. The synopsis caught my attention, and I wanted to know if, like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the…
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Thank you NetGalley and The Experiment Publishing for the review copy of Uta Seeburg’s “How Would You Like Your Mammoth?” This was such a fun and informative book! I love reading microhistories, and while there is nothing “micro” about the history of food, Seeburg breaks down 12,000 years of historical cuisine into fifty bite-sized essays,…
