Printers in Appalachia: The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America, 1907-1967 Book

I love Rebecca Brown's style of writing. She ties together a lot of ideas and loose details about the world into a web of sticky, sometimes contradictory evidence. Her essays' central theme is not forced down your throat, so to speak, but images that support those themes are more knocked into your head until you either see them or don't.
My favorites here were "Priests" and "Invisible". "Priests" explores a link between Catholicism and erotic sexuality and Oreos. "Invisible" is a web of footnotes (the footnotes take up more space than the body of the essay), using the metaphor of the old Invisible Man movie series to talk about closeted homosexuality and its effects on humanity. Or something like that.
I think I liked this better than I like Brown's fiction, in fact. Her use of pop culture as a sort of museum of identity is fun and insightful to read.