I spent most of my summer reading Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988), and it deserved more rumination than normal and a few more potential readers so I shared it with another blog that I like: Tropics of Meta. Check out the blog and my essay "Dog Day Classics: My Vietnam Vacation With John Paul Vann," which can be found here.
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August 20, 2017
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Books Read in 2020
- Elizabeth Hardwick: Sleepless Nights (1979)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin (1953)
- Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987)
- Charles Bukowski: Post Office: A Novel (1971)
- Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)
- Victor David Hanson: Ripples of Battle (2003)
- Brian Dillon: Essayism: On Form, Feeling and Nonfiction (2017)
- W.G. Sebald: The Emigrants (1992)
- Carll Tucker: The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Finding America, Finding Myself (2008)
- E.F. Schumacher: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973)
- Viet Thanh Nguyen : Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016)
- Graham Greene: The Ministry of Fear (1943)
- Zadie Smith: Grand Union: Stories (2020)
- Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
- Steven Weisenberger: The Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Context for Pynchon's Novel (1983)
- Paul Chaat Smith: Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong (2010)
- Graham Greene: The Third Man (1949) novella
- Mark Harris: Bang the Drum Slowly (1956)
- Susan Levenstein, MD: Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome (2019)
- Sam Stephenson: Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View (2017)
- Andrew Roberts: Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 (2008)
- Lawrence Ritter: The Glory of Their Times (1966)
- Albert Camus: The Plague (1948)
- Sam Lipsyte: The Ask: A Novel (2010)
- Mark Greif: Against Everything: Essays (2016)
- Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Refugees (2017)
- Leah Penniman: Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to the Liberation of the Land (2018)
- Norman Macht: Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (2007)
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