Tag: Boom Town

• Favorite Books of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite films, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. This list happens to coincide perfectly with the period of time I began (1) reading for fun once I graduated college, (2) tracking my reading, and (3) reading a lot more. This means I had tons of titles to consider. I forced myself…

  Dec 12, 2019

  # Atlas of a Lost World, best of, books, Boom Town, Circe, Kory Stamper, lists, Madeline Miller, Station Eleven, Steven Johnson, The Hunt for Vulcan, The Shepherd’s Life, Typewriter Revolution

• Favorite Books of 2018

  Goodreads tells me I read 72 books this year. Though I didn’t read as many as last year, with a baby on the way I’ve been trying to read abundantly while I can, for both quality and quantity. Here are the books published in 2018 that I enjoyed the most. (See previous best-of book lists.)…

  Jan 2, 2019

  # 2001: A Space Odyssey, best of, books, Boom Town, Circe, Coen Brothers, lists, Madeline Miller, Oklahoma City, quotes, review, The Odyssey

• Boom Town

  In his new book Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Sam Anderson writes about how Oklahoma’s storm chasers, though overly sensational and ratings-hungry, still provide crucial insight about Oklahoma’s notoriously destructive tornadoes: Radar data, like starlight, is information about the past: it tells you about the distant object it bounced off seconds or…

  Nov 6, 2018

  # books, Boom Town, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, review, weather