“I don’t worry about the survival of the novel. We are a story telling species”
Read this. Read it now! It’s Obama on love of the written word, how writing helped him define himself and how we explore other’s experiences.
Transcript: President Obama on what books mean to him https://t.co/LYqXTso0Xf pic.twitter.com/VkhUtoxgCM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 16, 2017
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Here is a list of the books and authors mentioned in the above and it’s companion piece. I know I’m adding the books I haven’t read and a sampling of the below authors to my TBR.
Cixin, Liu: The Three Body Problem
Groff, Lauren: Fates and Furies
Hemingway, Ernest: A Movable Feast
Kanheman, Daniel: Thinking Fast and Slow
Kingston, Maxine Hong: The Woman Warrior
Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon
Naipal, V.S.: A Bend in the River
Living Reflections 