The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
Memoirs with a spine
People who had something to survive.
Book 1 Patriot
Alexei Navalny
READ IT The memoir he finished in a cell, knowing how it ended. Brave, funny, unbearable. Read it standing up.
Book 2 Knife
Salman Rushdie
READ IT The attack, and the long climb back to a sentence. Clear-eyed about the man who did it and the wife who stayed. Read it.
Book 3 Sonny Boy
Al Pacino
FOR SOME The Bronx, the theatre, the fame, told the way he talks. Charming, scattered. His voice carries the loose parts.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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