Cupcakes and Crotch Kicks: On Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?”
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic...
Tom Zoellner is an editor-at-large at LARB and a professor of English at Chapman University. He is the author of eight nonfiction books, including The Heartless Stone, Uranium, The National Road, Rim to River, and Island on Fire, which won the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Bancroft Prize in history.
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic...
Tom Zoellner talks to Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest, which she explores in her recent book “The Foundations...
Tom Zoellner reviews Geoff Nicholson’s “Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps.”
Tom Zoellner talks to Lydia Otero about her new account of a young adulthood in Los Angeles, “L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir”
Tom Zoellner talks to Pete Candler about his new book “The Road to Unforgetting: Detours in the American South, 1997–2022.”
Tom Zoellner reviews Anjan Sundaram’s “Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime.”
Tom Zoellner reviews Emily Hilliard’s “Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.”
Tom Zoellner seeks a way forward from gerrymandering.