The playwright on his “Hollywood/male/monster-centric” reading list, and other books that are saving him.
Ten Books Chosen by George Saunders
The Award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardot chooses a reading list to help him through the challenges of our times.
Interlocutor: Seen
“My words are worth a dollar
on Amazon if I put them there.”
– Tyler Mills
The Turnaround
“I know the standstill,
the mute glare”
– Joan Larkin
Against Perfection
After forging his artistic voice in Lisbon’s nascent avant-garde, Jorge Colombo has built a career as an acclaimed illustrator for The New Yorker, and the photographic bard of Narrowsburg
If I Grow Any Taller Will I Still Be Loved?
In his book Fascination, his memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island, a leading proponent of the New Narrative movement recalls his coming-of-age in a “seedy, Burroughs kind of place.”
“Somewhere deep in the bowels of the ship, he lay dying in his wife’s arms.”
Translated into English for the first time, a new collection of 15 essays by Stefan Zweig reflects the writer’s range of enthusiasms and interests, including this lovely paean to Gustav Mahler.
Pheasants
“People have notions of angels, that they look like people, Tito Papel had thought many times—and in many way this depiction of them is true—but what they never get right is their skin, which, with their tiny feathers, resemble more tall, beakless birds.”
Ten Books Chosen by Samantha Power
The writer and humanitarian picks Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece on racism and exclusion, a Nigerian classic by Chinua Achebe, and a wrenching piece of reportage on Hiroshima.
Top Ten Books of 2020
We often look to year-end lists for a distillation or reflection of our collective experience, and this year it’s difficult to look so directly into that mirror. But books are still a slow business and one reads recent releases half-remembering that in most cases these words were written more than a year ago. This year’s […]
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