Dear readers, Before you empty another wastebasket or wheel your trash bin to the curb, do please take a look at our critic Dwight Garner’s most recent review. “Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story,” by Simon Paré-Poupart, is a satisfying and even moving memoir of the author’s decades in and around Montreal hauling trash for a living, which doubles as an unlikely ode to the vocation, Garner writes: to “the battlefield camaraderie, the dark humor, the brutal physical demands, the renegade outré style of many of the workers.” It’s a great book — “It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work,” as Garner says. It’s a pleasure to read something so surprising, and so surprisingly good. I hope you have something similarly enjoyable at hand. See you on Friday.
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