![]() ![]() I love mastery and confidence in a writer - the feeling that she knows exactly where she’s taking you and why. Which writers - novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets - working today do you admire most? Her book made me think twice about what counts as a “big” story. detectives in East L.A., I was across town, covering O. ![]() At roughly the same time as Leovy was shadowing L.A.P.D. Jill Leovy’s “Ghettoside.” Meticulously reported and gracefully written, this book captures the horror of urban violence in Los Angeles. So my night stand (virtual and otherwise) always contains just a single book currently, it’s Adam Hochschild’s “Spain in Our Hearts.” As my system has evolved, I only give myself credit for books read cover to cover, and I read exactly one book at a time. Starting in 1987, I have used the same book as my “book of books.” It holds the place of honor in the drawer by my bed. What books are currently on your night stand?Īfter my dad died, in 1984, I found among his possessions a little leather notebook where he wrote down all the books that he read, as he read them. The author of “The Nine,” “The Run of His Life” and, most recently, “American Heiress” wrote his senior thesis about Samuel Adams: “Musical rights to this work are still available.” ![]()
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