We talk a lot about writing on this blog, and inspiration and creativity. But I’m wondering: what are you reading?
I just finished Janet Malcolm’s awesome work on the relationship between authors and their subjects, The Journalist and the Murderer, whose smart analysis of the story behind Fatal Vision is relevant to both fiction and non-fiction writers. Before that, Rebecca Goldstein’s Mind-Body Problem. I’m not sure what I’ll read next.
What about you?
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Tony Noland
I’m reading “The Art of War for Writers”, by James Scott Bell, and “About Alice” by Calvin Trillin.
Gabor Suveg
i’m reading right now The English Patient (von Michael Ondaatje).
lady dandelion
Leisure reading: The Private Patient by PD James & Fever in the Bone by Val McDermid. (James – Audiobook and McDermid – paperback.
Beside this I read a lot of legal history as a part of my studies – right now McCoubrey & White’s Textbook on Jurisprudence and Zweigert’s Introduction to Comparative Law.
David Maliniak
Lately I have been reading the works of Vladimir Lossky, a modern Russian emigre theologian. I am in a late-vocations program and working toward ordination to the Diaconate in the Orthodox Church in America.
Michael Leddy
Andy Hertzfeld, Revolution in the Valley (on the making of the Mac) and J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories.
Jolene
_A Monstrous Regiment of Women_, by Laurie King, and _Reading the Bible Again for the First Time_ by Marcus Borg.
Lanzman
Currently reading Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson as part of my founding fathers biography fixation.
Speedmaster
Recently finished Dark Star Safari, now reading Hayek’s Road To Serfdom.
Tom Hall
WWII Kick:
Defeat into Victory by Field Marshal Slim
Crusade in Europe by Eisenhower
War Diaries of Field Marshal Alanbrooke (top Brit general during the war).
I think I need to take a break for something uplifting. Perhaps Heart of Darkness again.