Butcher's Crossing vs Reading autobiography: Which Should You Read?

Butcher's Crossing John Williams · 1960 ★★★★☆ 4.2 265 pages · ≈ 4 h 54 m · Challenging

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for…

Reading autobiography Sidonie Smith · 2001 232 pages · ≈ 4 h 18 m · Moderate

Life Writing in the Long Run gathers twenty-one essays by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson written in collaboration or solo and published over the last quarter-century. It includes the introductions to…