This year, Brady Gerber is reading…
Sally Rooney – Conversations with Friends
Dexter Filkins – The Forever War
Jaroslav Kalfař – Spaceman of Bohemia
Thomas Pierce – The Afterlives
Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs & Steel
Maurice Carlos Ruffin – We Cast a Shadow
Lauren Wilkinson – American Spy
Terry Southern – The Magic Christian
Benjamin Dreyer – Dreyer’s English
Steven Hyden – Twilight of the Gods
Dorian Lynskey – 33 Revolutions per Minute
Austin Kleon – Keep Going
James Baldwin – Another Country
Ben Myers – Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion
Marc Spitz – Nobody Likes You
Elvis Costello – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Orhan Pamuk – Istanbul: Memories and the City
Elizabeth McCracken – Bowlaway
Sam Lipsyte – Hark
Hanif Abdurraqib – Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Lisa Halliday – Asymmetry
Heidi Julavits – The Vanishers
Binnie Kirshenbaum – History on a Personal Note
Joshua Furst – Short People
Rivka Galchen – Little Labors
Anne Carson – The Beauty of the Husband
Ben Marcus – The Flame Alphabet
Nathan Englander – Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Paul Beatty – The White Boy Shuffle
Ian Hunter – The Diary of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Wayne D. Dosick – Living Judaism
Anita Diamant – Choosing a Jewish Life
Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the Vanities
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