Agent Palmer

Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post is not my usual reading. It’s extremely contemporary and is perhaps the most recently published piece of non-fiction I’ve ever read.

But as a former student of journalism, and as my friends currently introduce me as a “Features Writer & Documentary Conversationalist” which could arguably be at least tangential to journalism, this is a book that’s about much more than the sum of the three elements listed in it’s subtitle.

Every week, we get up and live through the same seven days of the week.

Sure, the days themselves are never quite the same, but the names never change. It’s no wonder, then, that those days of the week are often the basis for popular music.

Amazon’s description is the shortest and perhaps most simplistic summary of The Old Religion by David Mamet that I could find: “A historical narrative tells the story of Jewish factory owner Leo Frank, who in 1914 was wrongfully accused and convicted of raping a white Southern girl and eventually lynched by an angry mob.”

This book was one that I wasn’t prepared for, but I don’t know if one could prepare for this book. In the beginning, during the setup of the character based upon real-life accused Leo Frank, the book contains fragments of life and conversation that feel familiar.