Nonfiction read in the calendar year of 2019, A.D.

From NPR

Here we go in the order the books were read:

Monica Hesse’s American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land (2017)

I still can’t believe two people burned that many buildings. There truly are fires of all sizes everywhere, even in the Old Dominion. Probably the most recommendable book on this list because it features white trash Shakespearean theatre on the sparsely populated Eastern Shore.

Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time (2017)

Nothing messes with your head more than a theoretical physics book; it will simultaneously make a person believe nothing and everything matters and that both answers make sense. Because I’m bad at math, sometimes I just think of Rovelli as a poet. Carlo Rovelli is my favorite poet.

Richard Miles’ Carthage Must Be Destroyed (2010)

I think it’s my favorite of all the George R.R. Martin books.

Stephen Greenblatt’s Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (2018)

This academic wrote a 200-page subtweet to the President, and somehow it makes both the staging of the past and the experience of the present make more sense. Hashtag.

Little Boxes: 12 Writers on Television edited by Carolina Casey (2017)