RaveBooklistTackling immigration, the prison system, city ordinances, and the complicated bonds of family, the experience of reading The Rent Collectors is white-knuckle and, ultimately, wholly transformative.
Kyle Chayka
RaveBooklist\"Fans of the burgeoning genre of Big Tech ethnography will appreciate Chayka’s astute historical analysis and philosophical rumination on the subject, all \'filtered\' expertly with his own biography as a millennial who grew up amid the explosion of the socially fixated web.\
Matt Singer
RaveBooklistinger interviews producers and those who were close to the men, providing an expansive portrait of how two movie critics became unlikely stars themselves. The book ends with a rundown of some of the films that Siskel and Ebert gave glowing reviews to that have now entered relative obscurity. Recommended for wide purchase with, what else, an enthusiastic thumbs up.
Jeff Benedict
RaveBooklistAt over 500 pages, LeBron is an appropriately epic portrait ... The particulars of LeBron’s life and career... are thoroughly fleshed out in Benedict’s crisp style and skillfully-set scenes. The author also illustrates the many ways in which LeBron has changed the game both on and off the court ... While LeBron has been in the public eye for decades, Benedict provides the most comprehensive profile yet.
Kirk Wallace Johnson
RaveBooklist... a sprawling historical narrative with sobering connections to our current moment. Book clubs interested in nonfiction selections will find much to work with here.
