Reading 2017

Books:

The New CSS Layout, Rachel Andrew, 2017

The Minimalist Mindset, Danny Dover, 2017

The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower, 1, Stephen King, 1982

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, 1974

The Imperfect Environmentalist, Sara Gilbert, 2013

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For, David McCullough, 2017

Fast: Poems, Jorie Graham, 2017

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder, 2017

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953

Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters, Harold Evans, 2017

Check These Out: One Librarian’s Catatlog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You’ll Ever Read, Gina Sheridan, 2015

The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco, and Why it Matters Today, Wayne Curtis, 2014

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, Carolinas De Robertis, Ed., 2017

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson, 2017

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Valeria Luiselli, 2017 - Immigration policy.

Monkey, Hsi Yu Chi

Thinking Machines, Luke Dormehl, 2017

Huê 1968, Mark Bowden, 2017

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future, Joi Ito, Jeff Howe, 2016

The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang, 1937

Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl, 1946

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2016

Finding Zen in Cowtown: 30 Poems About Kansas City, Jason Preu, Ed, 2017

The Ergonomics of Worry: Poems by W.E. Leathem, 2015

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, Jesmyn Ward 2016

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami, 2007

The Varieties of Religious Experience, Willam James, 1902

The Killing Floor, Lee Child, 1997

Wonder, R.J. Palacio 2012

Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville 1853

An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, 1995

Gift From the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

Stuart Little, E.B. White, 1945

Books For Living, Will Schwalbe, 2016

Rethink, Steven Poole, 2016

Stretch, Scott Sonnenschein, 2017

White Egrets, Poems, Derek Walcott, 2010

Leaving The Atocha Station, Ben Lerner, 2011

The Rain In Portugal, Poems, Billy Collins, 2016

At the Foundling Hospital, Poems, Robert Pinsky, 2016

Articles

Poems From the Abyss, Charles Simic, New York Review of Books, 2017-11-23 - Miłosz: A Biography by Andrzej Franaszek

Five Magnificent Years, Geoffrey O’Brien, New York Review of Books, 2017-09-28 - Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life by Jonathan Gould

Take a Hike!, Charles Petersen, New York Review of Books, 2017-08-17 - On the Trail: A History of American Hiking by Silas Chamberlin, Yale University Press, 243 pp., $30.00 - On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor, Simon and Schuster, 340 pp., $25.00; $16.00 (paper)

God’s Gift to Men: Wonder Woman a film directed by Patty Jenkins, Zoë Heller, New York Review of Books, 2017-08-17

In Memory of an Angel, David Shapiro, 2017

The Possible Absence of a Future: Talking with Jorie Graham, Erin Lyndal Martin, 2017-08-14

Review: Jorie Graham’s “Fast” tethers humanity in a world of machines, Megan Volpert, 2017-05-17

Fast: Poems, Reviewed by: Laverne Frith

What Trump Gets Wrong About Antifa, Peter Beinart, 2017-08-16

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville, Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept, 2017-08-15

The True American, Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books, 2017-08-17 - Review of 10 Books by or about Henry David Thoreau.

Nuclear Diplomacy: From Iran to North Korea? Jessica T. Mathews, New York Review of Books, 2017-08-17

An Elusive Cold War Star, Tim Page, New York Review of Books, 2017-07-13 - Two books on Van Cliburn

The Nihilism of Julian Assange, Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books, 2017-07-13 - Risk, a documentary film directed by Laura Poitras

The Truth About Our Prison Crisis, New York Review of Books, David Cole, 2017-06-22

Fathers & Daughters, Elaine Blair, New York Review of Books, 2017-07-13 - Review of recent Louis C.K. Projects.

Will The Death Penalty Ever Die, Jed S. Rakoff, New York Review of Books, 2017-06-08 - Review of Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment.

Letters from Roy Black and Thomas Angel, New York Review of Books, 2017-06-08

What Happened to Clintonism?, Nicholas Lemann, New York Review of Books, 2017-06-08

Vanities & Regrets, Dan Chiasson, New York Review of Books, 2017-06-08 - Review of last poetry books by C.K. Williams.

Catching Up to James Baldwin, Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books, 2017-05-25

Remembering Robert Silvers (1929-2017), New York Review of Books, 2017-05-11

Our Timeless, Timely Constitution, Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books, 2017-04-20

Where Evangelicals Come From, Gary Wills, New York Review of Books, 2017-04-20

The Two Robert Lowells, Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books, 2017-04-20

Trump: The Scramble, Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books, 2017-04-06

4321 by Paul Aster, Review by Nathaniel Rich, New York Review of Books, 2017-04-06

I Am Not Your Negro, Review by Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books, 2017-03-23

A Book of American Martyrs (Joyce Carol Oates), Review by Ruth Franklin, New York Review of Books, 2017-03-23

What He Could Do, Mark Danner, New York Review of Books, 2017-03-23