NP - Springsteen's Reading List

[Matthew Taylor]

Can't say that would have been more amusing, since we would have just
assumed he'd read the book as he claimed.

Springsteen has been one of my favorite musicians for years, and, although
Steinbeck doesn't do much for me at this point, reading him when I was
young and growing up in central California was powerful and formative. Of
his work that I've revisited, I have actually appreciated *Cannery
Row* and *Tortilla
Flat* the most, though those are rarely mentioned when people talk about
him.


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it have been more amusing if he'd said he had, but hadn't?
>
> Most people have only seen the film, which was a damned good one.  And I
> have to admit that Steinbeck is not one of my favorite authors.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Matthew Taylor <
> matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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