My Five Most Important Books
(Gay Talese)
The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Religious hypocrisy in America?it's all there, and amazingly relevant."Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Dagny Taggert is a woman of gigantic ego, purpose and arrogance. She's Hillary Clinton."Mixed Company" by Irwin Shaw. He's a romantic?I am, too?and I wanted to write nonfiction in the spirit of his short stories."Underworld" byDon DeLillo. He writes astonishing scenes. Seagulls hovering over agarbage dump?you can see the seagulls, smell the garbage. The pieces ofshoes: poetry. T. S. Eliot couldn't do it better."The Great Gatsby" byF. Scott Fitzgerald, the writer who most influenced my life. "Gatsby"instilled in me a mistrust of the rich?especially in Long Island.A classic that, on rereading, was disappointing:"Ideal Marriage"by Dr. Th. H. Van De Velde. A Marriage manual. I stole it from mymother's shelf. It was a turn-on when I was 14. It's not a turn-on at74.The book you care most about having your children read: My own memoir, "A Writer's Life"?because I want them to know me as I see myself.© 2007 Newsweek, Inc. |
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