Recent reading

I ended March with a couple of books about 21st century U.S. presidential elections (no, I don't know why I'd do that to myself, either)— Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham, a bildungsroman set against the backdrop of Obama's 2008 campaign, and Chasing Hillary, a memoir by journalist Amy Chozick, who covered Hillary Clinton's campaigns in 2008 (for the Wall Street Journal) and 2016 (for the New York Times) as part of her traveling press corps. Cunningham's novel is not autofiction, but he was an Obama '08 campaign staffer and is now a cultural critic at the New Yorker, and you can tell both of those things from his book. Chozick writes with a chip on her shoulder and a bone to pick (i.e., a grievance against the Hillary campaign for having a grievance against her for her reporting, because she was Just Doing Her Job) but her book is certainly a page-turner.