Frank Warren
The book that set a course. At The Book Thing in Baltimore I saw a man persistently searching over the used-book shelves. More
Kitchen Confidential
New York Times bestseller that helped launch a wave of interest in chefs and the culinary arts. More
Tom Robbins
I write to twine ideas and images into big subversive pretzels of life, death, and goofiness—on the chance that, like the Trickster figure in tribal myths, they might help keep the world lively and give it the flexibility to endure. More
Jay Onrait
I read because as much as I love film and television, and documentaries, and Facebook, and Twitter and Snapchat, and my abacus . . . More
Tara Moss
Thanks to my parents, I’ve been a passionate reader since childhood. More
Bradley Trevor Greive
If not for My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell, I wouldn’t be a writer . . . mind you, I probably wouldn’t have had five treatments for rabies either. More
Michele A’Court
I read because I want to live more than one life. Books take us out of ourselves into a whole other world. More
Emma Freedman
Why I read: To escape the everyday in worlds that wildly creative people invite us into, and to expand the mind. More
