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 […]
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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.
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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.”
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Long reads from the Reader archive for your long Thanksgiving weekend
Sink your teeth into these favorite Reader features.
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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.
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Lee Sandlin, scourge of the small screen
Revisiting the take-no-prisoners TV criticism of Lee Sandlin
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RIP Lee Sandlin, longtime Reader writer
In remembrance of the author and critic, along with links to some of Sandlin’s work
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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.
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Generation after generation of strangeness occupies Lee Sandlin’s The Distancers
One fellow’s family, from 19th-century Germany to 20th-century Edwardsville, Illinois
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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.
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What’s a first book? You’ll know it when you’ve written it
The definition of a first book is mostly psychological.
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Considering the majesty and malevolence of tornadoes
Lee Sandlin’s Storm Kings: On the mystery, majesty, and malevolence of tornadoes
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Lee Sandlin’s Second Book Is in the Works
Lee Sandlin and Pantheon have agreed on the subject of his second book.