“Bough Down” by Karen Green. Recommended by Meghan O’Rourke, culture critic and Audio Book Club member. One of the most singular books I read this year — a book that left an indelible impression on me — is Karen Green’s “Bough Down,” a lyric elegy for a husband who took his own life. Comprising both visual collages and elliptical prose entries, “Bough Down” is a lament for a lost love, by turns yearning, acerbic, resigned and alive with protest. Green’s husband was the writer David Foster Wallace, though he is never mentioned by name; the book is a triumph on its own terms.
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At Jefferies’ funeral, mourners talked not of gun control laws, but of the need to change an ingrained mindset among so many young people that the acceptable way to end a dispute is with a gun. “I’m not sure what it’s going to take, but we need to find a way to grab these youngsters who are out here with all these guns and try to find some way to turn them around,” said Eddie Mae Malone, an elder at the House of Prayer in Oakland who attended the service. Malone said she had gone to pick up her two grandsons from the same memorial when she heard shooting. She rushed to locate her grandchildren, who were thankfully safe.