Subway Philosophy’s Recommended Reading for the Long Commute.
- The People of Paper // Salvador Plascencia
- The Savage Detectives // Roberto Bolaño
- Without // Donald Hall
- The New York Trilogy // Paul Auster
- Then We Came to the End // Joshua Ferris
- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters // Julian Barnes
- Crush // Richard Siken
- White Noise // Don DeLillo
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay // Michael Chabon
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being // Milan Kundera
- Without Feathers // Woody Allen
- Side Man: A Play // Warren Leight
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline // George Saunders
- On Beauty // Zadie Smith
- Girl With Curious Hair // David Foster Wallace
- How We Are Hungry // Dave Eggers
- The Year of Magical Thinking // Joan Didion
- In Cold Blood // Truman Capote
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Recommended Reading « Subway Philosophy // September 22, 2008 at 2:07 am |
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larry // September 22, 2008 at 6:37 am |
Savage Detectives? really? The first 120 pages and the last 50 were good, but what about the 350-400 pages in the middle? What was up with that?
Chana // September 23, 2008 at 9:25 pm |
Crush is backwards!
v // January 30, 2009 at 3:07 am |
Good choices, but no Manhattan Transfer, by John dos Passos?
It is singularly the best book ever written about New York during the Jazzage, sans those few lines from Gatsby…
“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
Sounds like Subway Philosophy to me!
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