Street Book Club: The Underground Railroad
Book: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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Book: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
For non–fiction film nerds like me, 2017 has already been a fantastically challenging year in documentary. In late February, Haitian director Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro brought James Baldwin’s literary stylings to film. Then, Casting Jon Benet reminded me of the horrible unsolved murder of six–year–old Jon Benet (and it blurs what’s true and false! Woop?). And now that we’re discussing tragedies, Barak Goodman’s Oklahoma City exposed the deep strains of white nationalism that led to standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Waco and eventually the Oklahoma City bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah building.
Christine Chubbuck was born in 1944. She had two brothers, Tim and Greg. She attended Laurel School for Girls in a suburb of Cleveland. She went to Boston University to study broadcast. After a few years working on the East coast, she got a job hosting a morning show in Sarasota, Florida. On the side, she volunteered at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital giving puppet shows to children with intellectual disabilities. On July 15, 1974, she shot herself on live television. That’s what’s true. That’s what’s non-fictional.
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