Book Recomendations

Top Ten: The Best Books According to 125 Writers

I love lists. I mean not as much as Rob Gordon or Amy Santiago, but still. So I was happy to find a book called The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books in a second-hand store in my hometown.

A bit about Allen Ginsberg

I like the beatniks. It started, like for a lot of people, with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and from there I dived into William S. Burroughs Junky.…

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live. Eleanor leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats…

Home Stretch by Graham Norton

Continuing with the accidental “British gay entertainer turned writer” series. This time a chat show host and fiction for a change. Graham Norton is charming, smart and funny…

William Gibson, the godfather of Cyberspace

Borrowing from Wikipedia: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as…

Life in the Anthropocene

Though it can be very frustrating, I like reading books about the environment and our role in it. And as you may suspect, we play a shitty role.…