Favorite Books

• V.S. Naipaul - The Writer and the World: Essays, The Enigma of Arrival; Bernard DeVoto - Across the Wide Missouri, The Course for Empire; Jack Kerouac - On the Road, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Town and the City; Chaim Potok - My Name is Asher Lev; J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit; Isaac Asimov - Foundation; Lance Reynald - Pop Salvation; Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist, The Devil and Ms. Prym; Sung J. Woo - Everything Asian; D.R. Haney - Banned for Life. Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan (anything Tarzan), John Carter of Mars (Series); J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...

Favorite Authors

• V.S. Naipaul, Jack Kerouac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Bernard DeVoto, D.R. Haney, Lance Reynald, Paulo Coelho, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Yates, Chaim Potok, Sung J. Woo, Stuart Perkhoff, Stan Lee, Hunter Thompson, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway

What I'm Reading

• I just finished Lilac Mines by Cheryl Klein, Everything Asian by Sung J. Woo, MEG Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten, Banned For Life by D.R. Haney, Sisters 8 by Lauren Baratz Logsted, Don't Call Me A Crook! by Bob Moore, Pop Salvation by Lance Reynald, It's Never To Late To Be What You Might Have Been by B.J. Gallagher.

  I'm reading Totally Killer by Greg Olear, Supergirls by Mike Madrid, Sic by Brin Friesen, In Praise of Indecency by Paul Krassner.

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