That’s how I like it, because I like to say what I think.

A pristine copy of Gore Vidal’s “Washington, D.C.”  
James Baldwin’s “Just Above My Head” 
George Saunders’s new “Tenth of December” 
Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson 
 a Rockwell Kent
the novelist Greg Dinallo 
a copy of the historical novel “Giants in the Earth.”
the play “Cattywampus.”
the novelist David Markson