I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: ( America is more than states )

Alexandria Robbins, Fraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men: ( alcohol and more )
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South: ( whiteness and power )
Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer: ( violence )
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971: ( more violence )
Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832: ( we hate who we mistreat )
Michael Pembroke, Korea: Where the American Century Began: ( a list of sins )
Andrew Ventimiglia, Copyrighting God: Ownership of the Sacred in American Religion: ( god and mammon )
Martin Skladany, Big Copyright Versus the People: How Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them: ( get off my side )

News and views:

First up, I am not going to be a reluctant New Yorker much longer. Z. got a tenure-track job near DC, so we are going home. We may have to live in Virginia (The horror! The horror! And believe you me, Heart of Darkness references are not much misplaced with respect to certain aspects of Virginia.), but we'll be in the greater DC area. I will greatly miss my colleagues and the wonderful fans of NY, people like cesperanza, astolat, geekturnedvamp, and many, many others. Also, I'll miss my 24-hour gym and the St. Agnes book sale. But I won't miss the crowds or the noise.

( I celebrate by drawing down on my to-review pile; what, you didn't know I was a geek? Nonfiction, sf and mystery )

Coming soon: review essay on becoming a pornographer.