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lil  ·  3869 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Are Your Bedside Books?

McLuhan, Understanding Media

Milton Cross's Complete Stories of the Great Operas

Florida Straits, by Laurence Shames. While in Key West, I was told that the author of this book lived in our compound for three months while he was writing it. Back then, the compound of six homes around a pool was clothing-optional. He set this book there.

The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Pema ChÖdrÖn.

Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life without God, by Grayling

Man in the Dark, Paul Auster

How Men Feel - a very thick book by Anthony Astrachan

American Places by William Zinsser

A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel

The Outlaw Book of American Poetry

and others