![]() ![]() They are my reward for struggling through denser stuff. I’ll dole those out because they are such a source of pleasure. ![]() I’ll also still pick up a Stephen King novel. I’m also reading a book on synthetic genomics called “The Genesis Machine” by Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel. I recently finished “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” by Cathy O’Neil, and “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” by Jaron Lanier. ![]() A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Markley’s other books include the memoir Publish This Book and the travelogue Tales of Iceland. Now, I’m interested in the damage social media and American capitalism are doing to our brains and society. Stephen Markley is the acclaimed author of Ohio, which NPR called a masterpiece. ![]() For the last decade that has been a ton of climate change tomes. MARKLEY: I’m also a big nonfiction reader, mostly for research. Maybe it’s why I could write a 1,000-page novel over 10 years. This is why I’m somewhat terrified of starting a novel because I know I will plow through it regardless. There are maybe three books in the last decade that I haven’t finished. MARKLEY: I am a total psychotic completist. It’s about the wars between the Indigenous people and settlers in Ohio in the 18th century.īOOKS: Do you read every book to the end? Another one, which I read longer ago, is “The Frontiersman” by Allan W. I love a big novel that you can vanish into. MARKLEY: I just read Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove.” I found it in a little library seven years ago. ![]()
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