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Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate): Six-Gun Snow White (2013, Subterranean Press) 3 stars

Six-Gun Snow White

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A retelling of "Snow White" set in the "gritty gun-slinging west." Her parents were a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him; her mother's life ended as hers began. Our narrator, born into …

Cobb, Charles E. Jr: This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed (2014, Basic Books) 5 stars

This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed

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"Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as "an arsenal." Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to …