Now that I know everyone’s top ten albums, what about books?
\nIf I was packing and could only bring ten books, I’d pick the following…wrapped in sheets of poems numerous as styrofoam peanuts, of course…\u00a0(Rilke! Rumi! Sexton! Whitman! the Beats!)
\nAnd if I contradict myself…well, you know what Walt says….
\n1.\u00a0 Catcher in the Rye\u00a0 -Salinger
\n2.\u00a0 Nightwood\u00a0 -Djuna Barnes
\n3. When Kafka Was the Rage\u00a0 -Anatole Broyard
\n4. When I Was Five I Killed Myself -Howard Buten
\n5. Echo -Francesca Lia Block (runner-ups:\u00a0 Weetzie Bat and I Was\u00a0A Teenage Fairy)
\n6.\u00a0 Narcissus and Goldmund -Herman Hesse
\n7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -Roald Dahl
\n8. The Bell Jar -Sylvia Plath
\n9. The Power of Now -Eckart Tolle
\n10. A blank notebook to write\u00a0my\u00a0own, even if it doesn’t read as good later
\n(my apologies to all those great books I can’t fit here or am forgetting…I feel like I’m trying to remember my list of ‘thank you’s at the Oscars the the exit music\u00a0is playing……)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now that I know everyone’s top ten albums, what about books? If I was packing and could only bring ten books, I’d pick the following…wrapped in sheets of poems numerous as styrofoam peanuts, of course…\u00a0(Rilke! Rumi! Sexton! Whitman! the Beats!) And if I contradict myself…well, you know what Walt says…. 1.\u00a0 Catcher in the Rye\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"\n