Snow makes suburbia pastoral, a cleansing sprawl on the land. I can make shapes in the snow that sound psychedelic when you hear them. Snow families spring up on front lawns as if transported by magic, or the modern equivalent of magic, computer technology. I can walk for hours at night, an never see another, and if by chance I do, we are comrades, braving the winter chill, trying to spend the night alone in another reflective paradise..
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Karen Abbotts first book was Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for Americas Soul, which needles to say, was not the kind of history book you read in school. Centered around the Everleigh Sisters who ran a prominent Chicago brothel for more than a decade, Abbott...