Bookshelf

To write (or think) well, you need to read well.
Dig in.

Of Wolves and Men
Barry Lopez
The wolf is intricately connected to humanity, and we've killed them for sport.
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
We're a society of affluent, hyper-individual strangers who don't remember how to form a healthy community - a tribe.
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
“It is the business of the times to change, Mr. Halecki. And it is the business of gentlemen to change with them.”
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Christopher Hitchens
"...moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage rather than resignation. "
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt
"Good can be radical; evil can never be radical..."
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
"...it is not enough to change the structure of society in order to bring a new world into being; the psychology of man also has to be changed."
Heretics
G.K. Chesterton
"The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator."
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts."
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”