Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Merritt Wever and Toni Collette are so good in the Netflix show.

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong

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I’ve been wanting to read this book ever since I heard about it. I listened to the “Anatomy of Doubt” episode of This American Life back when it first aired, and I was gobsmacked by the story. I fully meant to read it a long time ago, and then again when I realized the new Netflix show Unbelievable was based on it, but I have poor impulse control and ended up watching the show first. (It was really, really good.) The story kind of consumed […]

When the illustrations for the article make you decide you have to read the book.

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Sometime in 2016 I found a list of best long-form reporting stories of the past year. Deep into the list, I clicked on this story from ProPublica and The Marshall Project, about a young woman who reported being repeatedly raped over many hours by a masked man, in her apartment, and the nightmare scenario which unfolded as she was accused of making a false report, then arrested and forced to go before a judge to plead guilty for her “crime.” The story was embedded into my memory for […]

Burn it all down

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Obviously books about rape aren’t the easiest reads in the world, but this one actually felt easier than most. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to get angry and be horrified about in here. It’s just that the authors presented their material in a way that wasn’t gratuitous or overwhelmingly gruesome. I felt like they walked the line between letting the reader know the full picture of what happened without going overboard on crime details. A few years ago, ProPublica and The Marshall Project […]



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