Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee, paperback (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) New York Times Review
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery Hardcover, (Little, Brown & Company) Lambda Literary Review
The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities, by Wayne Kramer, HC (Da Capo Press) Rolling Stone Review Signed copies available!
Ryan
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
–Stephen King
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Collins) New York Times Review
The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, edited by Joan & Anne Watts (New World Library)
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Vicki Robin (Penguin Books)
A People’s History of Civilization, by John Zerzan (Feral House) Anarchist News Review
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, by Andrew Yang (Hachette Books) New York Times Review
Tara
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos, by Dionne Brand (Duke University Press)
Everyday People: The Color of Life–A Short Story Anthology, edited by Jennifer Baker (Atria Books) Review in Ploughshares
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” – Joyce Carol Oates
Tony
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List, by James Mustich (Workman Publishing) Review in The Washington Post
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics)
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by John Meacham (Random House) New York Times Review
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, by Ronan Farrow (WW Norton) New York Times Review
Unbury Carol, by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
Lauren
Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland (Baltzer + Bray)
“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them.” – Lloyd Alexander