![]() ![]() This distillation of all that Buddhism says: ‘The person who craves nothing cannot suffer.’ From Harari and Sapiens. What’s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently? That’s how I finally read Moby-Dick, the book everyone pretends to know… And, when someone tells me they finally read a book they could never crack, I take a whack out of a sense of a challenge. I stack up the books, three columns, six or eight books at a time, and just wear that pile down. What do I know, and how little do I know, and is there more I want to know? That, and certain authors who never let me down: Sarah Vowell, Ada Calhoun, Bill Bryson, William Manchester, Dave Eggers. What influences your decisions about which books to read? Word of mouth, reviews, a trusted friend? Do you have fellow readers in Hollywood you regular trade recommendations with? Instead, I flew through it like it was a nonfiction The Thorn Birds. ![]() I had a highlighter ready to mark the more pavement-thick paragraphs I’d have to go back and re-ponder. I thought the book would be a dense read, a slog, with a struggle for my brain on every page. That fellow connected an awful lot of dots in that work. Blue Mars and Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson April 1865 by Jay Winik James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son. ![]()
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