Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, by J. D. Salinger
Billy Budd, by Herman Melville
Sylvia, by Leonard Michaels
A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker
The Mystery Guest, by Gregoire Bouillier
The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story, by Glenway Wescott
The Fall, by Albert Camus
The Pharmacist’s Mate, by Amy Fusselman
Morning, Noon, and Night, by Spalding Gray
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
The Dead, by James Joyce
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter
David Shields’s new book, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, was a New York Times bestseller. He is the author of eight previous books, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Utne Reader; he’s written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Visit him HERE.
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