Jo Page

By some strange coincidence, I find myself reading three very different memoirs by three very different white men. I’ve just finished J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, and am making my way through major 20th-century theologian, Jurgen Moltmann’s autobiography, A Broad Place and Eric Fair’s provocative memoir, Consequence which explores his time as an interrogator in Iraq. I’m not normally much of a memoir reader, bu

Watch carefully because I’m about accomplish this fancy, journalistic sleight of hand in which I start this post in a curmudgeonly vein and, by sheer dint of willpower end up with one that will make you say “Ahhh” or is it “Awwww!” and want to print it out and put it on your fridge with your new Etsy magnets. I mean, anyway, that’s Plan A. Plan B is that I’m still in a bad mood when I finish. The bad mood is partially caused by The Snowstorm, by which you can tell I am writin