These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore, Hardcover (WW Norton) New York Times 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!
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery Hardcover, (Little, Brown & Company) Lambda Literary Review
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“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
–Stephen King
The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, edited by Joan & Anne Watts (New World Library)
A People’s History of Civilization, by John Zerzan (Feral House) Anarchist News Review
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Collins) New York Times Review
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Vicki Robin (Penguin Books)
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
Everyday People: The Color of Life–A Short Story Anthology, edited by Jennifer Baker (Atria Books) Review in Ploughshares
Severance, by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
“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
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) New York Times Review