NP - Springsteen's Reading List

[Matthew Taylor]

I did find it amusing that he admitted to not having read *Grapes of
Wrath *when
he wrote "The Ghost of Tom Joad."

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it seems Springsteen has good literary taste.
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Where's the "like" button here?
>>
>>
>> On Monday, November 3, 2014, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/favorites.html
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/03/bruce-springsteen-reading-list-favorite-books/
>> >>
>> >> Moby-Dick (free download; public library) by Herman Melville
>> >> How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty
>> Attempts at an Answer (public library) by Sarah Bakewell
>> >> Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of
>> the Universe (public library) by Dennis Overbye
>> >> Love in the Time of Cholera (public library) by Gabriel García Márquez
>> >> Anna Karenina (free download; public library) by Leo Tolstoy
>> >> Leaves of Grass (public library) by Walt Whitman
>> >> The History of Western Philosophy (public library) by Bertrand Russell
>> >> Examined Lives (public library) by Jim Miller
>> >> American Pastoral (public library) by Philip Roth
>> >> I Married a Communist (public library) by Philip Roth
>> >> Blood Meridian (public library) by Cormac McCarthy
>> >> The Road (public library) by Cormac McCarthy
>> >> The Sportswriter (public library) by Richard Ford
>> >> The Lay of the Land (public library) by Richard Ford
>> >> Independence Day (public library) by Richard Ford
>> >> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (public library)
>> by Flannery O’Connor
>> >> Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music (public
>> library) byGreil Marcus
>> >> Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (public library)
>> by Peter Guralnick
>> >> Chronicles (public library) by Bob Dylan
>> >> Sonata for Jukebox (public library) by Geoffrey O’Brien
>> >> Soul Mining: A Musical Life (public library) by Daniel Lanois
>> >> Too Big to Fail (public library) by Andrew Ross Sorkin
>> >> Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression (public
>> library) by Dale Maharidge
>> >> The Big Short (public library) by Michael Lewis
>> >> The Brothers Karamazov (free download; public library) by Fyodor
>> Dostoevsky
>> >> Great Short Works (public library) by Leo Tolstoy
>> >> The Adventures of Augie March (public library) by Saul Bellow
>> >> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (public library) by L. Frank Baum
>> >
>>
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