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| This past week, I've been asking TPM staffers to write up their summer reading picks. Below, some of our superb interns weigh in. Lakshmi: I read Carl Sferrazza Anthony's wonderful biography of Florence Harding last summer and I plan to continue going down the First Lady route by checking out Sylvia Morris's Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. Also on my list is the young adult novel Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji, the story of an Asian Indian girl who fled Uganda with her family after Idi Amin issued his 1972 order expelling all Asians from the country. Matt: For summer reading this year I am mostly just catching up on some Cafe books, Nixonland and Standard Operating Procedure in particular. As a nice beach book, I've also tossed Gravity's Rainbow in there, with some David Sedaris to boot. Dave: My friends and I formed a Thomas Pynchon Book Club, with our first (only?) selection being Gravity's Rainbow, without a doubt the most frustrating and rewarding book I have ever picked up. I'm not even going to try and describe it's madness and perfection. For lighter reading, I'm going with essay books- Will Leitch's God Save The Fan (Crashing the Gates for sports is the best analogy), Keith Johnstone's Improv (techniques on improv comedy, but also great life advice) and Eudora Welty's On Writing (sharp). ... |
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