Reading List

Currently Reading or Rereading:
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
Husbands and Lovers edited by Joseph Greene
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The New Yorker

Reading List graduates (and some 6 Word Synopses):
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Half Empty by David Rakoff
The Times We Had by Marion Davies
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Vacationland by John Hodgman
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Creeps by Fran Krause
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
The Best American Short Stories of 2016 selected by Junot Díaz
The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
On Writing by Steven King
Life #6 by Diana Wagman  – Lost at sea, found at C.

Story Favorites:
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
Olympus Hills by Ron Carlson
The Sock by Lydia Davis
The Most Girl Part of You (from At The Gates of The Animal Kingdom) by Amy Hemple
Ella : Then by Tara L. Masih
The Bingo Master (from Haunted) by Joyce Carol Oates
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy
Yours by Mary Robison
The Other Other Woman by Shoshauna Shy
Can-Can by Arturo Vivante
Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

Novel Favorites:
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Non-fiction favorites:
The Only Thing I Envy Men (from Little Labors) by Rivka Galchen
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Questions for Me About Dying (from Dying: A Memoir) by Cory Taylor

Other favorites:
A Compiled List of Collective Nouns by Mia Mercado

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