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10 books I loved in 2015

Ten books I loved in 2015 (and you might too)

January 15, 2016 youbigtalker

I’ve been reading so many good books lately and have been meaning to share them with you. (I’ve also read…

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Posted in: Ingredient 3: Art Filed under: a manual for cleaning women, a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again, although of course you end up becoming yourself, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, aziz ansari, best books of 2015, brooklyn, brown girl dreaming, cbgb, cherry, czech republic, David Foster Wallace, dfw, dh lawrence, essays, jacqueline woodson, jonathan lethem, just kids, kim gordan, leaving las vegas, Lucia Berlin, mary karr, meghan daum, milan kundera, millionaire teacher, misbehaving, missing person, modern romance, musicophilia, my struggle, north korea, nudge, oliver sacks, one minute stories, patricia highsmith, patrick modiano, patti smith, richard thaler, Selfish, Shallow, studs terkel, suki kim, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the fortress of solitude, the liars club, the magus, the night of the gun, the rainbow, the stranger, there is no us, top books of 2015, without you, working

Although of course you end up becoming yourself (book reaction)

September 30, 2015 youbigtalker 1 Comment

I’ll admit it: He’s gone by choice, which makes his thoughts more interesting to me. Let’s get that out of…

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Posted in: Ingredient 3: Art Filed under: although of course you end up becoming yourself, book reaction, bookworm, David Foster Wallace, David Lipsky, KCRW, michael silverblatt, podcast, storytelling, writing

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