Books I love Reading for Courage:

• Morality by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

• E.B. White: Writings from the New Yorker,

• Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon

• How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith

• Wherever You Go There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Books I love About Writing:

• Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott

• On Writing Well, William Zinsser

• On Writing, Stephen King

• Nobody Wants to Read Your SH*T, Stephen Pressfield

• One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty

• Writing in Restaurants, David Mamet

Books I Love Reading to Be Smart:

• Taming the Molecule of More, Michael Long

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson

• West From Appomattox, Heather Cox Richardson

• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays: Gay Talese

• History of God, Karen Armstrong

• The Aftermath: Philip Bump

• Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis

Authors that Make Me Sooo Jealous, but I still want to meet for lunch.

• Christopher Buckley; he’s a much better writer than his dad, sorry, WF!

• Holly Berkley Flectcher, her Newsletter, A Zebra Without Stripes, I hate, it’s too good.

• Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink, her writing makes me swoon.

• Richard Powers, The Overstory, How?

• Jonathan V. Last, Bulwark editor, but he’s busy.

• Edith Wharton (Okay, she’s been dead for 80 years, but I’m still open for lunch.)

Guilty Pleasure Books:

• Anything by Woody Allen

• - The 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act