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“Scott Spencer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Jane Kenyon, and The Colbert Report’s writers.”
—NPR’s Terry Gross responds to the “Who are your favorite writers?” question in Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Listen - Donald Westlake: Hard-Boiled To The End
NPR’s Fresh Air remembers Westlake with interviews from 1988 and 1997
Happy Birthday Donald Westlake (1933-2008), one of America’s greatest mystery writers of all time.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Rachel Carson’s Summer Reading List
In her bestselling book The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson—author of Silent Spring and one of the most influential nature writers of the 20th century—included a list of “Outstanding Sea Prose” as suggestions for further reading. “These books are listed because each, in one way or another, captures the sea’s varied and always changing moods,” she wrote. “All are among my own favorite volumes.”
Here is her list - all of them ideal for beach reading.
Henry Beston’s The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.
Joseph Conrad’s The Mirror of the Sea.
Richard Hughes’ In Hazard.
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s Men Against the Sea.
H.M. Tomlinson’s The Sea and the Jungle.
