True Story(ies)

I’ve bought & given away a few copies of David Grann’s book The Lost City of Z without reading it myself, thinking I would read it someday soon but not feeling any particular hurry.

In Costa Rica last month, Friday spoke of how much she’d enjoyed the book, and I made a mental note to move it up in my (non-physical) to-be-read pile.

Returning home, I found the April 4 New Yorker in my mailbox, and a brand new story by David Grann -- about a political conspiracy/murder -- in Central America!

(The video is spoiler-filled for anyone who hasn’t read the article.)

I finished the article and tried to check The Lost City of Z out of the library the next time I was there, but all copies were out, with waiting lists.

 I remembered seeing another book by Grann in bookstores -- a paperback compilation of his magazine reportage, I believed -- but the library had no other titles listed for him, and I couldn’t remember the title of the book. (Pathetic, what eight years out of the book business has done to my mind.)

A few days later I happened across this Slate piece:

What do you know? I’ve been reading and recommending Grann since the beginning of The Clock.

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