Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty - The New York Times
“I adore William James and Henry James,” says the author Kathryn Schulz, whose latest book is the memoir “Lost & Found” — “but did I also read E. L. James back in 2011? You bet.” What books are on your night stand? An ever-evolving combination of books I’m in the middle of reading (Rousseau’s “Emile,” which I decided to revisit just before the birth of my daughter), books I’m going to read next (Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed”), books I’ve already finished but haven’t gotten around to shelving (Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “The Five Wounds” and Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain”), books I’m reading for work (“The Hound of Florence,” by the Austro-Hungarian author Felix Salten, better known for writing “Bambi”), books I’m reading for pleasure (John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”) and books that basically live there permanently (a lovely first edition of Robert Frost’s “West-Running Brook,” which was an anniversary gift, and another of James Baldwin’s “The Price of the Ticket,”
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