Note to self: read, read, and then read some more. Here are some titles that’ve been tacked on the side of my computer screen for some time with the title, author and cursory description. I’m obnoxiously picky, so they’ve all got ratings of >4 on book-review-thingamajigs. Also, they sounded really interesting:
- The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe
- 1973 anthology of journalism
- Palestine & Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco
- Journalistic graphic novel about Israel-Palestinian conflict
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didio
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- Didion’s 1968 collection of essays
- Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
- Novel on transgenderism
- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
- A ‘“factless autobiography”, fragmentary life project
- Either/Or a Fragment of Life
- On human development, aesthetic-ethical, consciousness, philosophy
Quantum and Lotus, Matthieu Ricard
- Buddhism meets contemporary science, written in form of dialogue
- Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
- Collection of short stories
- The White Album, Joan Didion
- Didion’s 1979 book of essays
- Kool Aids: The Art of War, Rabih Alameddine
- Situated in 80’s, on AIDS epidemic in San Fran, Lebanese civil war
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