What do you recommend?

“Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk is an exquisitely crafted memoir about grief, the beauty and sorrow of Nature. Her prose is as hard and bright as steel. Fall is when I also go back to Moby-Dick, because it’s the genuine article Great American Novel. Every time I read it, I find new and wondrous passages about race, democracy and the glory of the sea. And I’m reading every scrap I can find of Jeanne Marie Laskas’ not-quite-out-yet Concussion, which tells about how football can destroy your brain. I figure it’ll help me put FSU’s losses in perspective.”

Diane Roberts, author of Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America

Roberts appears at 11 a.m. Nov. 22 in Room 8301 at Miami Dade College

This story was originally published November 13, 2015 at 7:25 AM with the headline "What do you recommend?."