Reader’s Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
Reading Lists
Lydia Peelle’s Reading List
How to approach a list like this? The first impulse was to list my all-time favorites, though that…
Peter Friederici’s Reading List
Last year I found myself reading, or rereading, wide swaths of Joan Didion’s work, as collected…
Jay Griffiths’s Reading List
Our Word is Our Weapon, by that masked philosopher of eternal truths, Subcomandante Insurgente…
Rebecca Clarren’s Reading List
These days, thanks to some fellowship money and a nerdy curiosity about natural gas, I’ve been…
Bill Kittredge’s Reading List
I’m teaching grad students this winter at UC Irvine, and so I’m far from most of my books…
Mary Rose O’Reilley’s Reading List
A man who lived a few trailers down from ours in East Sullivan, Maine advertised “Used Bicycles,…
Carl Safina’s Reading List
On my night table right now:
Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen. I’m not an…
Matt Rasmussen’s Reading List
I just finished Ken Kesey’s novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, which had been a rather…
Hank Lentfer’s Reading List
Much of my reading these days is out loud with a five-year-old curled in my lap. My daughter has yet…
James Galvin’s Reading List
Much of my reading is involved with my teaching, so right now I am immersed in The Collected Poems…




