Books we Can’t Quit
Books We Can’t Quit: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Chosen By: Ally Nicholl Bullseye Books, 1988 272 pgs/$6.99 I discovered The Phantom Tollbooth at the appropriate age and in the usual way. I was about nine, and it was a battered old copy I came across in the schoolroom … Continue reading
Books We Can’t Quit: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Chosen by: Dawn West First Published in Hardcover: April 1, 1993. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 256 pgs/$10.99 “What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.” “Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl.” … Continue reading
Books We Can’t Quit – Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
Anchor Books April, 2001 (hardcover originally published by Knopf, 2000) Chosen by: Amye Archer Maybe it’s the educator in me, but I have, throughout my reading lifetime, creating a series of benchmarks that a book must reach in order … Continue reading
Books We Can’t Quit – S.F.W. by Andrew Wellman
Random House January, 1991 Chosen by David Atkinson I have to admit, I’m a little nervous to talk about this book. For a lot of people, certain books take on an almost sacred character. They speak to a part of … Continue reading
Books We Can’t Quit – Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Harper Perennial December, 1993 Chosen by Andrew Bales Fuckhead Goes to the Moon [and Turns Back]… Jesus’ Son might as well be the literary world’s nineties gospel; the book of Johnson. The collection of interconnected stories— the bulk of which … Continue reading