Slate names COLUMBINE 1 of 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the quarter century
Slate just set about creating a canon of major nonfiction books, by naming The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years. Staggered to see Columbine there, with a lovely write-up.*It's currently their cover story, and an awesome list. I have read quite a few, and loved nearly all of those, including Lost City of Z, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families,** and . . . I better stop listing, or this post will be huge. Most of the others have been on my should-read or maybe-read list, and just got a huge bump.(I went right out and ordered Age Of Wonder--not sure what took me so long.)It's amazing company, and I'm kind of awed to be among them. (I've also met quite a few of these writers the past several years, and been really impressed. It's hard to write a madly interesting book without being at least somewhat interesting. haha.)I believe this is the first century-level list Columbine has made. I'm kind of giddy. Thanks Slate.(Update: After posting, I went back and looked for any century-related nonfiction list, and discovered Book Riot did one last year: 50 best from the last 100 years. I was shocked to see Columbine made it as well. How did I miss that? Oh. It went up while I was madly rewriting Parkland last fall.)* I'm not sure where they got the factoid that I was "on the scene himself within 15 hours of the crime." It was about one hour.** That last one is also one of my all-time favorite titles.
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Wow. Thank you SO much for that. Really made my day.I also hate that I had to write a second book. I had said Never Again to another book, too, but those kids turned my head around.
Well done Dave! Columbine was an eye opener and so well researched. Fascinating read while simultaneously horrific and sad. I had encouraged (and still do) recommend Columbine to everyone as a must read. I really thought things would change but the right people are not reading this book. I have Parkland and look forward to the details that you include that help make sense of why.
Thanks very much.Parkland is completely different--all about the response. I refuse to even name the killer.
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The sad part is that after all that, you still had to write Parkland (which should have been a Goodreads Choice finalist, btw). And yet that second book is helping to motivate people and bring us one step closer to ending school shootings once and for all.