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Articles by Rob McCue
Don't reopen schools
To the editor: As vaccine distribution continues in slow motion and a new, more contagious variant of the virus makes its way across our country, the school board must reconsider its decision to reopen our schools. One or more people could die because of this decision. More will require hospitalization. Others will have complications that last indefinitely. As our hospital is pushed beyond its capacity to treat people, the fatality rate will rise.
The top Alaska books of 2019
This past year I reviewed more than 30 books for this paper on a range of Alaska and northern themes. Looking back, these are the ones that left the deepest impressions. One Water By Rob McCue, Red Hen Press, 366 pages, 2018, $16.95 Rob McCue popped up out of nowhere with this debut collection of essays that describe life in Interior Alaska in ways that I’ve never seen done by any other Alaska writer.
Our book reviewers’ favorite reads of 2019
Every year, reviewers David James and Nancy Lord find more than 50 books to share with ADN readers, from poetry to non-fiction and true crime. The only common thread: each book has some connection to Alaska. After a year of reading and writing, here are the books that left the deepest impressions. It was my pleasure this year to review for this newspaper 24 new books related to Alaska in some way. Here are six of my favorites. They represent journalism, memoir, fiction and prose poetry.
Letter: Is this the change we wanted?
Gov. Mike Dunleavy promised change and boy, have we gotten it. In only a few short months, he has placed thousands of Alaskans’ jobs on the chopping block, threatened hundreds of Alaska’s neediest children with being thrown out of Head Start, and put our state on a slippery slope back into the recession we’ve spent the last few years trying to climb out of.
In ‘One Water,’ essays wind down Fairbanks streets and beyond
One Water By Rob McCue, Red Hen Press, 366 pages, 2018. $16.95 Fairbanks is a weird town. An oasis of semi-civilization smack in the middle of a vast wilderness. It’s not a Bush community, but unlike the much larger city of Anchorage to the south, it’s not quite an urban hub either. ’One Water, ’ by Rob McCue A significant portion of the 100,000 or so residents of the greater Fairbanks area would rather live someplace more remote.
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