Any Person Is the Only Self
A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.
Non-fiction
15 books
Essays, biographies, and books that blur the line. I admire non-fiction that looks closely at the world more than non-fiction that tries to convince you of something.
Burning The Days
Recounting his years as a fighter pilot and writer, Salter’s nostalgic and melancholic memoir drips with a Don Draper-esque masculinity.
Collected Works
“My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”
Nuclear War: A Scenario
A cinematic glimpse into Armageddon.
Intervals
Perfectly composed: a brilliant essay on care, grief, love and death.
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity — as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
The Living Mountain
Spellbinding descriptions of walking the hills of the Cairngorms.
