Preferred Reading List
  • Dennis Lehane: everything
  • Sarah Vowell: everything, esp. her audiobooks
  • Lisa Lutz: Spellman books are fun to read
  • David Sedaris: All audiobooks. SantaLand Diaries is a favorite
  • Joseph Campbell: everything, esp. Myths to Live By
  • Charles Dickens: Tales of Two Cities
  • Benjamin Hoff: The Tao of Pooh | The Te of Piglet
  • Richard North Patterson: Protect and Defend
  • Daniel Quinn: Ishmael | My Ishmael | The Story of B
  • Shakespeare: everything except historical plays
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Cat's Cradle; Breakfast of Champions
Books recommended to me by a brilliant, but pathetic, lunatic
  • fiction
    • David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedar
      (it's supposedly better than the movie - well, let's HOPE so!)
    • Joseph Heller: Catch 22
    • William Kennedy: everything
  • nonfiction
    • David McCollough: everything, and in particular, Path Between the Seas
Preferred Movie List
  • The Station Agent
  • Bull Durham
  • Spitfire Grill
  • The Birdcage
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • Moonstruck
  • King of Hearts
  • Best in Show
  • Mystic River
  • The Sting
  • American President
  • As Good as it Gets
  • It's the Rage
  • The Man With One Red Shoe
  • Eating Raoul
  • Crash
  • Bridges of Madison County
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Being There
  • Dan in Real Life
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • Elf
Preferred Music List
  • The Blues (BB King, Professor Longhair,...)
  • Don Byron
  • Aretha
  • Mozart
  • nothing much classical past Beethoven
  • Puccini (La Boheme, Tosca are favorites)
  • Pavarotti
  • not very fond of Verdi (If you need a camel in your opera, you've got problems)
  • and there are more...