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Articles by Bruce Nichols
The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
Kathryn Jezer-Morton. Viking, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-83411-4 The Cut columnist Jezer-Morton debuts with a shrewd analysis of how social media has restricted the stories people tell about themselves and others. The author first noticed the rise in “a disciplinary sort of storytelling, freighted with meaning and intentionality” when researching momfluencers for her sociology doctorate.
Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America
David S. Reynolds. Penguin Press, $37 (480p) ISBN 978-0-59349-023-5 Historian and critic Reynolds (Abe) resurfaces a once commonplace American rhetorical device in this captivating study.
Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery
Nancy West. Adams Media, $17 (240p) ISBN 978-1-50-722538-7 West (Masterpiece), an English professor at the University of Missouri, offers a comprehensive and accessible biography of the author of Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None. Christie’s life story unfolds in 100 vignettes that blend biographical research with excerpts from her work. Born in 1890, Christie had an idyllic childhood in Devon, England, where she was homeschooled and read voraciously.
Was Emerson the True Father of American Literature?
Bruce Nichols on the American Renaissance of Prose and Poetry in the 1850s The 1850s have been called the American Renaissance, the decade when distinctive new voices emerged in prose and poetry. The great works were remarkably concentrated: from The Scarlet Letter (1850) to Moby-Dick (1851), to Walden (1854), to Leaves of Grass (1855).
The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
Jason Dove Mark. Norton, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-324-11788-9 Citing inaction as a major factor in perpetuating the climate emergency, journalist Mark (Satellites in the High Country) offers a hopeful manual for staying engaged in protecting the planet.
THE EMERSON CIRCLE
An invigorating work of social and literary history, its learning lightly worn. Vivid portrait of the writers who launched American literature.
TIRZes are here to stay. Will they keep their promises?
Discussion of TIRZes too often degenerates into extreme overstatement. Critics see them as evil destroyers of neighborhoods. Supporters see them as noble generators of needed growth. I prefer accepting TIRZes as a reality of life in Houston and working to mitigate their negatives while maximizing their positive. This middle way has borne fruit in the case of TIRZ 17.
Houston neighborhoods shouldn't be detention ponds
Houston has a lot of great characteristics. It is open to new people, new ideas. It encourages entrepreneurs. Its energy-based economy is strong, despite the slowdown. But one big flaw is our failure to organize local government to protect homeowner investments, a big share of life savings for most of us. The latest example of what this flaw leads to: Hundreds of homes flooded April 18. It was not a one-off event, a freak of Nature, as we have been assured.
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