Currently Reading

• The Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon

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• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
• Platte River by Rick Bass
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Objects on a Table by Guy Davenport
• Roads by Larry McMurtry
• South of the Northeast Kingdom by David Mamet
• Back on the Fire by Gary Snyder
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman

Other books read

Music

• Kid A, Radiohead
• Ágætis Byrjun, Sigur Rós
• The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place, Explosions in the Sky
• Parachute, Coldplay
• Joshua Tree, U2
• 80/81, Pat Metheny et al
• Abbey Road, The Beatles
• Sandanista!, The Clash
• Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, Wilco
• Blue, Joni Mitchell
• A Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
• Ragged Glory, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
• Metheny/Mehldau, Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau
• A Love Supreme, John Coltrane

Artists

• Rembrandt
• Lucien Freud
• Van Gogh
• Egon Schiele
• Dürer
• Paul Cadmus (drawings)
• Picasso