A Dream Summer Reading List
posted by Dave Hoffman
Which books, lost in history or yet unwritten, would you most like to see released and available for purchase this summer?
I ask in part because I was watching The Name of the Rose recently, with its focus on the (lost) second book of Aristotle’s Poetics on comedy. There are, of course, a ton of books lost in time out there – even a book on lost books. (Be cautioned, however, by the book’s review by Publisher’s Weekly: “Inevitably, the thesis is more charming than the lengthy execution, and one suspects this would have been much more effective in condensed form as a whimsical article in Harper’s or the Atlantic.”)
So what are the books you’d most want to read at the beach or while procrastinating in the office, but can’t? A few of mine are easy – Robert Caro’s LBJ Part IV: The Presidency, and George R. R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons. But I’d also like to see Bob Clark come out with a new edition of Corporate Law. How about you?
June 4, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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Chris Robinette - June 4, 2008 at 5:45 pm
In the same vein, I’m looking forward to Edmund Morris’s third (post-presidency) volume on Theodore Roosevelt.
Paul Gowder - June 4, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Byron’s criminally destroyed memoirs.
Frank - June 7, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain.
Paule Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own.
Noonan, Persons and Masks of the Law.
Grant McCracken, Transformations.
Radha Chadha, The CUlt of the Luxury Brand.
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