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Am reading now:
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa by Philip Caputo
Experience: a Memoir by Martin Amis
Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River by Peter Heller
Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics by Alexander Frater
Just finished:
The Signature Of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
Loved this book. One of my new faves. Highly recommended.
Seeing Out Louder: Art Criticism 2003 – 2009 by Jerry Saltz
Hard to find but worth reading if you appreciate art.
Song of the Sky by Guy Murchie
About weather and aviation with some memoir. Excellent.
Burning the Days: Recollection by James Salter
A memoir by one of our finest writers. Read this.
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb
About a life reading and editing.
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
One of the few writers of short stories I admire.
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
Plus I subscribe to and read The New Yorker (have a 2 inch stack of them
I need to read), The Economist (my primary source of news) and The
New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books every two
weeks.
And I listen to audio books when I am driving. Currently listening to
To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee
Where is the best place to get audio books?