I was recently asked by my oldest son for a “reading list.” The following was my response (not in any particular order):
The Old Curiousity Shop Dickens
The Naked and the Dead Mailer
Appointment In Samarra O’Hara
Lord Jim Conrad
Herzog Bellow
Seize the Day Bellow
Henderson the Rain King Bellow
New England Indian Summer Van Wyck Brooks
The Gingerman Donleavy
Short Stories of John Cheever
Sabbath’s Theatre Philip Roth
Night Dogs Kent Anderson
Advertisements for Myself Mailer
Quite Early One Morning Dylan Thomas
Anything by Thurber
Anything by Clarence Day
Mrs. Egg and Other Americans Thomas Beer
A Moveable Feast Hemingway
Ninth Avenue Maxwell Bodenheim
