Upon the release of its second list of good stuff to read, the NBCC is posting additional recommendations from its members, with photos (so that’s what Alex Ross looks like!). If you’ve ever felt like you’ve read all the worthy books there are to read, well, think again.
Alex Ross (Let’s Talk About Love: the End of Taste by Carl Wilson, from the 33 1/3 series. About Celine Dion.)
Chris Watson (The Thing About One Life is One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields)
Geraldine Brooks (Fall of Frost by Brian Hall)
Troy Jollimore (The Alphabet Reader: a bpNichol Reader by bpNichol)
Steven Pinker (What is Intelligence by James Flynn)
Carmela Ciuraru (Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland)
Toby Barlow (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon)
and me (How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet)
