Not P: Outing favorite books: Now you can read what Tilda Swinton and peers read

[Mark Kohut]

cool.  now someone needs to do a pop-up store of Pynchon and the books he's
blurbed.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/tilda-swintons/
>
> “I had, for years, thought that bookstores no longer needed to be
> comprehensive, because we can find a book online and we do,” says Aaron
> Hicklin, the editor-in-chief of Out magazine and co-editor of BlackBook
> magazine. “The best part of bookstores are the tables in the front with the
> staff recommendations. So I thought, what if an entire store was built
> around that concept? And what if the recommenders were names the attendees
> had heard of?”
>
>
> Those questions served as the basis for Hicklin’s latest project, a
> “bookstore concept” called One Grand. <http://onegrandbooks.com/> Hicklin
> approached dozens of people he admires – friends, acquaintances, some total
> cold-calls – and asked them a simple question: if you were stuck on a
> desert island, which 10 books would you bring with you, and why? The
> results, culled from the likes of Tilda Swinton, Tom Ford, Ryan McGinley
> and Ta-Nehisi Coates, are simultaneously good ways to fill up your summer
> reading hours — Hicklin has, true to his mission, opened a pop-up shop
> selling the recommended books at Whisper Editions
> <https://www.whispereditions.com/>on Fulton Street — but they also
> represent a window into people’s tastes and worldviews. Books, Hicklin
> says, “tend to be signposts through their lives, signposts of who they’re
> becoming and their evolving philosophy and ideology on the world. I thought
> that if these books were annotated, they become this kind of biography of
> the person.”
>
>
> In advance of a bookstore he is opening in Narrowsburg, , N.Y., this fall,
> Hicklin has shared the lists exclusively with T. The first — from the
> actress and Sleater-Kinney band member Carrie Brownstein — debuts for the
> first time here.
>
>
> *“The Devil Finds Work,” James Baldwin*
>
>
> “Baldwin is one of my favorite writers and cultural critics. His work
> always feels both relevant and revelatory. This book-long essay on film and
> moviegoing is part memoir, part homage to cinema, and also an exploration
> of the ways corrosive ideas seep into the collective imagination.”
>
>
> *“Collected Poems,” Philip Larkin*
>
>
> “‘On me your voice falls as they say love should, / Like an enormous yes’
> (‘For Sidney Bechet’). Such spare and soaring prose to examine stunted,
> anxious lives.”
>
>
> *“Birds of America,” Lorrie Moore*
>
>
> “Moore is one of the best short story writers of all time. She is a
> strange, wondrous and occasionally unmerciful storyteller while also being
> incredibly profound.”
>
>
> *“The Waves,” Virginia Woolf*
>
>
> “An impressionistic, experimental novel that is filled with an immense and
> delicate beauty. Told in soliloquies, the book explores a vast and tender
> interior landscape.”
>
>
> *“The Professor and the Madman,” Simon Winchester*
>
>
> “One of my favorite history books. It’s a story about the creation of the
> Oxford English Dictionary and of an epistolary and academic friendship
> between two men, one of whom (unbeknownst to the other) was an inmate at an
> insane asylum.”
>
>
> *“Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Joan Didion*
>
>
> “A seminal book of essays. A meditation on the mythologies of the West and
> on America itself. Trenchant, prescient, timeless.”
>
>
> *“We the Animals,” Justin Torres*
>
>
> “Ruminations on family, brotherhood, and the ways we are simultaneously —
> sometimes devastatingly — both different and similar to our kin.”
>
>
> *“Ballad of the Sad Café,” Carson McCullers*
>
>
> “‘The most outlandish people can be a stimulus for love.’ A Southern
> Gothic novella on the eccentricities and vicissitudes of the heart.”
>
>
> *“Other Voices, Other Rooms,” Truman Capote*
>
>
> “A dizzying, almost surreal bildungsroman about a search for a familial
> love that is just shy of non-existent.”
>
>
> *“The Argonauts,” Maggie Nelson*
>
>
> “One of my favorite books of the last few years. It’s both a memoir and an
> ontological exploration. In some ways, this book is a life-changer in that
> it posits new spheres of both being and togetherness.”
>
>
> *One Grand, a bookstore concept, is on view through the end of August at
> Whisper Editions, 8 Fulton Street, New York, **onegrandbooks.com*
> <http://onegrandbooks.com/>*.*
>
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