Monday, October 20, 2008

Writers recommending writers

Check out this NPR series called “You Must Read This.”

I heard writer Alix Kates Shulman talk about Grace Paley and it made me want to run out and get one of her books.

I listen to NPR almost obsessively so I thought this was a new feature. Turns out they have a huge archive.

These look good to me:

Oh the Glory of It All, by Sean Wilsey, Penguin, paperback, 496 pages, List Price: $15.00, Recommended by Curtis Sittenfeld

Doctor Zhivago , by Boris Pasternak, Everyman's Library, hardcover, 544 pages, List Price: $21.00, Recommended by Ursula Le Guin

The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers, Mariner, paperback, 176 pages, List Price: $7.95, Recommended by Augusten Burroughs

The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever, Vintage, paperback, 704 pages, List Price: $17.95, Recommended by T.C. Boyle

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