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Books read in August. Favorites with astericks.
Ambition by Joseph Epstein
Pertinent Players by Joseph Epstein
Narcissus Leaves The Pool by Joseph Epstein
Essays in Biography by Joseph Epstain*
Why Marines Fight by James Brady
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance*
The Films of W.C. Fields by Donald Descher
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition…of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides*
Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mom by Amy Chua*
The Art of The New Yorker: 1925-1995 by Lee Lorenz
How About Never-Is Never Good Enough For You:My Life in Cartoons by Life by Bob Mankoff
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. -Germaine Greer
The course is lovely, historic, and hellish.
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Books read in July. Favorite five with astericks. ** Best this year.
Beyond the House of the False Lama…by George Crane
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S. by J.P. Donleavy
Paradise by Larry McMurtry
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries by Paul Theroux
Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essay by Joseph Epstein*
Wild Stories: The Best of Men’s Journal
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Death of a Harvard Man by Simon Schama
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla
Daddy Stop Talking by Adam Carolla
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt*
The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 by Dick Couch*
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Eros of Place by Bran Dijkstra
The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting From The New Yorker ed by David Remnick
Life Among the Lutherans by Garrison Keillor*
Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein
Until Now by Anne Geddes
Sports Literature ed by John Brody and James Hall
Phantom Warrior: The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney’s One Man-Stand Against the Japanese in World War II by F.B Johnson**