A list of books and essays that I love - by Henrik Karlsson

I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about so much that they immediately occur to me.

I thought it’d be fun to do a series where I answer questions, or write essays in reaction to prompts you give me. This essay is the first attempt. If you want to submit a question or a prompt for a future essay, you can do so in the comments to this post, or in the Google Form I link at the end. RJ: What books/authors have influenced you? I’ll give you a list. But first some context. When our oldest daughter, Maud, was a toddler, she used books with author portraits on them as her dolls. She had Crime and Punishment in a baby stroller, Joan Didion’s A Year of Magical Thinking in a…

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