Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, by Lucia Berlin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 18)May we never run out of great, unsung authors to unearth after they die, as Berlin did in 2004. Her 76 stories, more than half of them collected here, range widely in location and technique: a post-funeral Mexican vacation introduced via tourists' chorus; an Oakland cleaner's life meted out in bus routes; a woman remembering, in local twang, her journey across the El Paso border for an abortion. Together, they make up the mosaic of Berlin’s thinly fictionalized, widely traveled, and traumatically eventful life, a Knausgaardian journey by other means. Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, by Justin Gifford (Doubleday, August 4) Before there was rap, there was pulp — mainly the work of Robert Beck, a.k.a.
- 8/5/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
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