| Hey y'all,
Here's a little something different this week: some of my favorite short books (short = around 200 pages or less) in case you want to sneak in some last-minute summer reading. You could read many of these in a single afternoon: - Novellas: Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Denis Johnson, Train Dreams, Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation.
- Short stories: Joy Williams, Ninety-Nine Stories of God and David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives.
- Lectures: Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology and Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium.
- Memoir: Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company, Joe Brainard, I Remember, and Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts.
- Poetry: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets and Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Ursula K Le Guin translation).
- Comics: Eleanor Davis, You & a Bike & a Road and James Sturm, Market Day.
- Art: John Berger, Ways of Seeing and Walter Murch, In The Blink of an Eye.
- Staying sane: Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death and Alan Jacobs, How To Think.
- Biography: Stefan Zweig, Montaigne and Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
- Essays: Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments, Donald Hall, Essays Over Eighty, Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, and Montaigne, On Solitude.
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xoxo,
Austin
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