PITTSBURGH — It took 30 minutes and five seconds to read the introduction of “Morning After the Revolution,” written by former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles.
It took the same amount of time to listen to the introduction via the audiobook, which I did because I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss a word Bowles wrote. The mother of one, with the second on the way, narrates it herself in a soothing voice that never betrays an emotion, which makes the words all the more important.
In that very short period, my reaction is best described by quoting the late great Selma Diamond in her role as a bailiff on the ’80s sitcom “Night Court” when Bull asks her, after hearing a wild-eyed story play out in court, “Well, that was quite a story. What did you think?”
Diamond’s deadpan “I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me” is exactly what I…
