Pointed out to me by Jen Bird, one of my favoritest people in the whole wide world…
Slate is doing a series this week examining higher education, and as one part of that they asked a bunch of notable people about their most influential reading from college. The list is, in general, a pretty good one: a person who read from the first to the last would have a pretty broad sense of the world, or at least the world of letters.
And you’ve got to admire David Brooks for excusing his pompous selections by saying that he went to UChicago. It’s funny because it’s true.
Also the fact that several people mention that their most influential book was one that could “get them laid.” Ah, these are the great minds of the modern world, ladies and gentlemen.
I do want to know where Norman Maclean is on that list, too.