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Patti Smith on the Two Kinds of Masterpieces and Her Fifty Favorite Books

“Everything pours forth. Photographs their history. Books their words. Walls their sounds.”

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Joan Didion’s Favorite Books of All Time, in a Handwritten Reading List

A living anatomy of influences, from Brontë to Baldwin.

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Bruce Springsteen’s Reading List: 28 Favorite Books That Shaped His Mind and Music

From Montaigne’s philosophy to Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, literary anatomy of the creative icon.

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Tolstoy’s Reading List: Essential Books for Each Stage of Life

Even if one could never “finish” great literature, one has to begin somewhere.

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Bob Dylan on Sacrifice, the Unconscious Mind, and How to Cultivate the Perfect Environment for Creative Work

“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”

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Gabriel García Márquez’s Formative Reading List: 24 Books That Shaped One of Humanity’s Greatest Writers

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read

How to “glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”

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Joan Didion Answers the Proust Questionnaire

“Misery is feeling estranged from people I love. Misery is also not working. The two seem to go together.”

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Jane Goodall Answers the Proust Questionnaire

A dead writer meets one of the greatest scientists alive.

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Stewart Brand’s Reading List: 76 Books to Sustain and Rebuild Humanity

From Homer to home health, by way of Shakespeare, conceptual physics, and a gender-imbalance lament.

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Search results for “david bowie”

“Everything pours forth. Photographs their history. Books their words. Walls their sounds.”

A living anatomy of influences, from Brontë to Baldwin.

From Montaigne’s philosophy to Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, literary anatomy of the creative icon.

Even if one could never “finish” great literature, one has to begin somewhere.

“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

How to “glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”

“Misery is feeling estranged from people I love. Misery is also not working. The two seem to go together.”

A dead writer meets one of the greatest scientists alive.

From Homer to home health, by way of Shakespeare, conceptual physics, and a gender-imbalance lament.

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