People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. - Palahniuk

Reading

from paris to the moon ~ Adam Gopnik

cadillac desert: the american west and its disappearing water ~ Marc Reisner

writers workshop in a book: the squaw valley community of writers on the art of fiction ~ Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez

how to win friends & influence people ~ Dale Carnegie

the road ~ Cormac McCarthy

naked economics: undressing the dismal science ~ Charles Wheelan

in the desert of desire: las vegas and the culture of spectacle ~ William L. Fox

confessions - St. Augustine

me talk pretty one day - David Sedaris

naked - David Sedaris


kitchen confidential - Anthony Bourdain

lady chatterly's lover - D.H. Lawrence

siddartha - herman hesse

medium raw - anthony bourdain 

mrs. bossypants - tina fey

do travel writers go to hell? - thomas kohnstamm

ender's game - d.h. lawrence

the postmoderns: the new american poetry revised - donald allen, george f. butterick


forget the past