Weekend Whats

What to Book: Flesh by Szalay is an excellent and very well-reviewed novel that traces the almost Homeric journey of its main character. What’s interesting is how little the main character seems to say. In some ways, he is a receptacle for other characters in the novel to fill in details about themselves.

+ What to Watch: “Jackie Quiñones, a hard-partying National Marine Fisheries Service agent, has her life thrown into disarray when she gets tasked with investigating serious crimes in her popular beach community.” My wife and I have been binge-watching Hightown on Netflix. It’s probably a notch below prestige TV, but it’s a solid crime/drug drama set in Cape Cod that features an inordinate amount of oral sex.

+ What to Doc: Katrina was a natural occurence. But the flooding of NOLA was an engineering disaster. The excellent Harry Shearer on the real New Orleans story not covered by out-of-towners. The Big Uneasy, now on YouTube.