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Dangerous Ghost dangerousghost — Another solid, highly entertaining collection by David Sedaris. Several, but not all, of the pieces in this one deal with family. "Hejira" is particularly poignant; it deals with a defining moment in Sedaris's life--except that nobody else involved told Sedaris why it was significant; his parents merely assumed that he knew what was going on. On a more positive note, "Six to Eight Black Men" had me laughing uncontrollably. (Finished < 2009-04-11 17:15 EDT)

Reem Fayek reemfayek — A beautiful study of working-class life. Rosenzweig demonstrates that workers in Worcester, Massachusetts, created distinctive leisure spaces for themselves in the years between 1870 and 1920. Their saloons, July Fourth celebrations, and public playgrounds served both to Americanize the largely immigrant workers and to set them apart from each others' ethnic enclaves. Thus, in Rosenzweig's understanding of Worcester life, leisure activities no less than employment status -- indeed, perhaps more than employment status -- defined the identity of a worker or a member of a working-class family. This sort of identity allowed for an alternative to white middle-class American culture rather than for a direct challenge to it. Ethnic Worcester workers struggled to avoid bourgeois social control by, for example, quietly ignoring laws that prohibited "kitchen barrooms," or turning public parks into ethnic playgrounds under the noses of progressive reformers, who had other ideas about healthy social interaction. Their success was mixed; lacking a unified political party, workers managed by adapting to the conditions that the city's business elite and political reformers created. At the same time, however, workers shaped the conditions that the American middle class lived in. Saloons and movie theaters, originally frowned upon by "respectable" society, gradually entered the mainstream of commerce; they drew the children of immigrants into the middle class, and at the same time, they drew the middle class into less disciplined forms of socialization.