in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image & Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, edited by Lisa Pearson.
Images drawn distinctively delight the eye, as does text worded cleverly or in an otherwise memorable fashion. The fact that said distinct, clever images [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach.
Being a parent is hard. Sometimes, you and your kid get invited to a rooftop barbecue at a 20-something's posh condo only to find that the only way to get to the rooftop is to drag [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. David Crockett: The Lion of the West, by Michael Wallis.
As a young man, I'd often watch a VHS tape of the 1955 Disney film Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier starring Fess Parker. Without regard for political correctness, I'd gleefully re-enact scenes [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1.The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth About 2012, by David Stuart.
I want to get mystical. I want to score peyote outside a Pearl Jam show and retreat to the nearest desert during the next harvest moon and commune with scorpions [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, by Philip Connors.
Jack Kerouac was a wilderness lookout. So was...well, I can't think of any other famous wilderness lookouts right now, but doesn't it seem like a great vocation for a young bookish man of [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy, by Albert "Prodigy" Johnson with Laura Checkoway.
"Who's that peepin' in my window/POW!/Nobody now." Was that Mobb Deep? Or was it Cee-Lo? Or—wait. Was Cee-Lo in Mobb Deep? Maybe it was Prodigy. Damn. Knowing a [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. A Moment in the Sun, by John Sayles.
I can't figure out if this is a novel or non-fiction, but it's a 1,000-page book about the late-20th century gold rush written by the dude who cast a teenage Will Oldham in Matewan, so get [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. Pym, by Mat Johnson.
F*ck your novel about post-collegiate angst: This book is about a band of African-American adventures who sail to Antarctica in search of an all-black island discussed in Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, by Piper Kerman.
I'm not sure if it's cool to spend a year in a federal penitentiary and then be released and pitch a book about your year in a federal penitentiary. Then [...]
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted.
1. The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan, by Bradford Martin.
The '80s weren't just about Reagan. They were about Sandinistas and hardcore and Penelope Spheeris. Except that people mainly just remember Reagan and have forgotten about hardcore and [...]
