When Anne Ford interviewed Adam Selzer for the Reader in 2014, it was all about his job as a ghost tour leader. You didn’t have to read between the lines to sense that it wasn’t the perfect gig for a truth-seeking research glutton. “No matter how skeptical I tried to be, I felt like I […]
Tag: Lee Sandlin
On winning wars and losing memories
Lee Sandlin’s magnum opus on Americans’ amnesia about World War II makes a Russian reflect on how differently we experienced the war.
Reader critic uncovers the secret purpose of Teletubbies
The British children’s show, wrote Lee Sandlin, “is the most blatant piece of prodrug propaganda since Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception.”
Long reads from the Reader archive for your long Thanksgiving weekend
Sink your teeth into these favorite Reader features.
Former Reader writer Lee Sandlin honored with a stretch of Artesian Avenue
Friends and colleagues showed up for the dedication of Lee Sandlin Way on Saturday.
Lee Sandlin, scourge of the small screen
Revisiting the take-no-prisoners TV criticism of Lee Sandlin
RIP Lee Sandlin, longtime Reader writer
In remembrance of the author and critic, along with links to some of Sandlin’s work
When the earth shook beneath the Mississippi
The story of a powerful seismological event where you’d least expect to find it: The Mississippi Valley.
Generation after generation of strangeness occupies Lee Sandlin’s The Distancers
One fellow’s family, from 19th-century Germany to 20th-century Edwardsville, Illinois
In The Distancers, the past is another Illinois countryside
The Distancers, Lee Sandlin’s newest, is an austerely beautiful remembrance of his southern Illinois family.
What’s a first book? You’ll know it when you’ve written it
The definition of a first book is mostly psychological.
Considering the majesty and malevolence of tornadoes
Lee Sandlin’s Storm Kings: On the mystery, majesty, and malevolence of tornadoes
Lee Sandlin’s Second Book Is in the Works
Lee Sandlin and Pantheon have agreed on the subject of his second book.