Category: Books

Kurt Vonnegut’s unstuck-in-genre masterpiece about the bombing of Dresden and also about human lifespans and our own perception of them

or, “Defying Odyssey,” Madeline Miller’s wicked re-interpretation of the story of literature’s first witch

An excellent poetry collection by Maggie Smith

Dava Sobel’s account of the efforts to calculate longitude at sea

Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s comic series about people whose orgasms stop time.

Max Brooks applies his World War Z style to Sasquatches instead of zombies

A cold-war sci-fi novel by Dan Moren

Ursula K. LeGuin’s classic about an average man whose dreams transform reality

A collection of essays combining Bradbury’s philosophy of writing along with some victory laps for his best work

I wanted a light book about Disney World history, and I chose poorly.