Reading

A running list of essays, blog posts, and books I’ve found worth reading.

Currently

The Odyssey - Emily Wilson (2017)

Every Man for Himself and God Against All - Werner Herzog (2023)

Mutiny On the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (1932)

Favorites

• Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1999)

Everything Paul Graham but especially:

• How to do good work

• How to do do what you love

• When to do what you love

2026

• The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved — Hunter S. Thompson (1970)

• Another piece — Author, Substack (Month)

• Why Fish Don’t Exist - Lulu Miller (2020)

2025

• Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion (1970)

• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion (2005)

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin (2022)

• No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (2006)