Books and essays

TheStoryGraph profile - where I track my books.
I don't have a great solution for essays/articles, beyond my Pinboard, where they are mixed in with other links.

Currently reading

• The Deadline, by Jill Lepore

Recently read

• The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., by Adelle Waldman. Re-read for second time, and still absolutely love it.

Favorites

• My favorite writer is John McPhee. I have read all of his books (~40?), which is probably a fairly unique achievement for a reader, compared with listening to all of a band's albums, or all of a director's films, for example.
• For most of my life, my favorite fiction writer was Thomas Pynchon, and I have read all of his books as well (only 9, but still an achievement given their (in)famous density). But I think I'm beginning to tire of his approach, in favor of more genuine and naturalistic voices. That said, I still think that the later Pynchon novels like Bleeding Edge and Mason & Dixon are very underrated.

Books

Narrative non-fiction

• Heirs of General Practice, by John McPhee
• Encounters with the Archdruid, by John McPhee
• Coming into the Country, by John McPhee
• The Control of Nature, by John McPhee
• Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell
• Fame and Obscurity, by Gay Talese
• Rising Up and Rising Down, by William T. Vollmann

Travel narratives

• A Parrot Without a Name, by Don Stap - Peruvian Amazon
• The Cloud Forest, by Peter Matthiessen - South America
• On the Plain of Snakes, by Paul Theroux - Mexico
• Coming into the Country, by John McPhee - Alaska

Fiction

• Sonny's Blues, by James Baldwin
• The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., by Adelle Waldman
• The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon

Essays

• Irons in the Fire, by John McPhee
• The Really Big One, by Kathryn Schulz
• Vanlife, by Rachel Monroe
• From Pickup Artist to Pariah, by Rachel Monroe
• Notes from Prince Harry's Ghostwriter, by J.R. Moehringer

Graphic novels

Photography collections

• The Americans, by Robert Frank
• Blind Spot, by Teju Cole