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David Goodwillie’s desert island picks

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:59:08 +0000

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter by James Salter

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s Desert Island Picks

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:19:23 +0000

Granted, the sheer volume of War and Peace is off-putting. But Said Sayrafiezadeh says he’d give the book another go if he were cast away with endless time for reading.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Ulysses by James Joyce

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Rich Cohen’s desert island picks

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:59:57 +0000

True life trumps fiction for the hard-hitting journalist.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell
Great Plains by Ian Frazier

Amanda Stern’s desert island picks

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:56:35 +0000

A Stephen King recommendation spun into PR gold.

Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
On Writing by Stephen King
English Composition and Grammar by John E. Warriner

Go get your own favorite!

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:26:56 +0000

Ken Wheaton’s desert island pick appropriates a Czech classic from a friend. (And he’s only slightly guilty about claiming the choice as his own.)

Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, edited by David Bevington
The Complete Works of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

Susan Orlean’s desert island picks

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:37:06 +0000

Nothing but her whole library will do—including the ones she’s written.

A. J.’s dummies guide

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:35:07 +0000

A. J. Jacobs' desert island revenge fantasy takes aim at William F. Buckley.

Darin Strauss’s desert island picks

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:45:17 +0000

Tolstoy. Nabokov. Bellow. Darin Strauss casts away with the titans of 20th century literature.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog by Saul Bellow

Laurie Sandell’s desert island picks

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:24:41 +0000

Without hesitation, Laurie Sandell knows exactly which three books she’d maroon herself with.

This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
Net of Jewels by Ellen Gilchrist