Any Person Is the Only Self
A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.
Non-fiction
14 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 at nuclear war that hurtles forward without ever losing sight of the people in its path.
Intervals
Her mother chose to die and Marianne Brooker documented the process, surreal and mundane as may be, into a perfectly composed essay.
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
Written in 1944, shelved for thirty years, and still revealing new vistas.
