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1:50 “Rye turned back to watch the sunrise over the Selkirks - a smoky red gash where someone had set a fire to get a job fighting it. Last year, Rye might have paid to get a shovel on that blaze, but Gig had gone and joined the IWW, the union fighting the corrupt employment agents who charged a buck for job leads.” I’m Betty Martin and that’s a quote from the beginning of Jess Walter’s newest novel The Cold Millions. It’s 1909 and times are tough for the cold millions, the millions of unemployed who live out in the cold while the wealthiest spend their days in warm personal libr...

Beneditto's Grinders, Groton My wife and I walk our dog on basically three variations of the same neighborhood route. Been doing so for years. Occasionally, one of us — not the dog — will say, "Hey, I've never really noticed (this or that or another) house before" even though we pass them all every day. It's sort of the same thing with Beneditto's Grinders. Different town, but we've driven past it a lot and just never noticed it. Well, I've noticed it now. My first sandwich was a combo ($7 small, $9 large). Incredible bread with a crusty shell and soft, airy interior. Thick layers of h...

Rhode Island (William Morrow) The week before Halloween seemed the ideal moment to pick up the 617-page epic horror novel “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M. Danforth. The tangled story toggles between a cursed Rhode Island boarding school for girls during the early 1900s and present day when a group of queer women return to film a movie about the school’s fabled history. Danforth writes with humor and is at her brilliant best with vivid female character portrayals, who are as wild and unpredictable as the untamed Rhode Island shoreline. South Carolina One of the most compelling books I re...

View of downtown Spokane circa 1911. Though it may be hard to imagine today, Spokane was once a hotbed of labor radicalism. And for a month — November of 1909 — all eyes of the nation were trained on the city for outlawing speaking in public. Hundreds of men and women who came to the city to challenge the seemingly un-American policy were thrown in jail. Well before 1909, the West had ceased being the land of opportunity advertised in railroad circulars; the fertile farmland and hillsides filled with gold had long since been locked up by bi...

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