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Readers Agree: Elizabeth Kolbert is "Unputdownable"
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: David Halberstam, Dorothy Wickenden, Elizabeth Kolbert, podcasts, politics, Ryan Lizza
Martin Schneider writes:
Hats off to the reader who said of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe that “it kept him up all night”—skip to about 10 minutes in. I love the idea! (The adjective above comes from a pullquote emblazoned on a paperback copy of David Halberstam’s The Powers That Be that I once owned.)
