READING LIST 2022

 The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas, Gustave Flaubert

Words on the Move, John McWhorter

The Story of Human Language, John McWhorter

After, Meg Boscov and Randall Brown

Our Magnificent Bustard Tongue, John McWhorter

Reading Chekhov, Janet Malcolm

Woke Racism. John McWhorter

Forty-One False Starts, Janet Malcolm

Now Write: Screenwriting, Sherry Ellis and Laurier Lamsen

A Swim in a Pond in teh Rain, George Saunders

Friday Night in the Glades, Mandy Miller (NYP)

Fucking Apostrophes, Simon Griffin

The Boys. John Hughes (NYP)

Pop. 1280, Jim Thompson

Savage Night, Jim Thompson

Lester Lies Down, James Ladd Thomas (NYP)

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, Carlo Rovelli

The Nobel Lecture, Bob Dylan

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

The Trouble with Happiness, Tove Ditlevsen

Flash Fiction America, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, John Dufresne, eds. (NYP)

The Best of the Rejection Collection, Matthew Diffee

Childhood: The Copenhagen Trilogy, Book 1, Tove Ditlevsen

Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy Book 2, Tove Ditlevsen

Mysteries of the Universe, Roger Hart (NYP)

Dependency: the Copenhagen Trilogy, Book 3, Tove Ditlevsen

The Idiots Karamazov, Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato

Icarus Over Collins, Hector Duarte, Jr. (NYP)

How to Write Like Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Pierre Brunello and Lena Lebček, eds/

Dear Life, Alice Munro

Love That Dog, Sharon Creech

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters,Killers, Rebels and Crooks, Patrick Radden Keefe

The Twilight World. Werner Herzog

Alice Munro’s Best, Alice Munro

What About the Baby? Alice McDermott

The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard

Existential Physics, Sabine Hossenfeder

The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard

If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffrey

Siddartha, Herman Hesse

The Deceptions, Jill Bialosky

Profiles in Ignorance, Andy Borowitz

The Divider, Peter Baker, Susan Glass

Confidence Man,, Maggie Haberman

The Short Story, A Very Short Introduction, Andrew Kahn

The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, Michael C. Keith

The Golden State, Clarence Major NYP

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann