A review by nhelregel
The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass

4.0

Took me a while to finish, as I tend to set books down a lot when they're conveniently divided into digestible chunks. However, I really did end up enjoying most of these pieces. Many other reviewers complained that most of the pieces were older and had already been published elsewhere. Luckily I had only previously read the Michael Pollan piece (in The Omnivore's Dilemma). While some pieces were just OK, many were delightful and eye-opening. Favorites include: Malcolm Gladwell's "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg," Bill Buford's "Among the Thugs," David Foster Wallace's "Host," and Lee Sandlin's "Losing the War." Also, I realized that I should give David Foster Wallace's non-fiction a chance (I tried his short stories/fiction once and could not get into it). One critique would be that the "new kings" of non-fiction only included two women. :(