What the Writers Are Reading & Watching

29 November 2012

Jason Kravitz

Reading:
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Watching:
"Phineas and Ferb"
"Shake it Up" (and anything my kid is watching)
"Boardwalk Empire"
"Louis"
"Enlightened"
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

Perennial Favorites:
Reading:
Books of the History of Rome
Books on the Civil War

Watching:
TV:
"The Sopranos"
Film:
"This is Spinal Tap"
"Young Frankenstein"
"Dr. Strangelove"
"Airplane"
"The Usual Suspects"
"Adaptation"
"Galaxy Quest"
"The Shining"
"Capricorn One" (yes, the one with OJ Simpson, James Brolin, Eliot Gould, Sam Waterston and Hal Holbrook)

11 July 2012

David Dean Bottrell

Reading
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Full Service by Scotty Bowers

Watching
Television:
"America's Got Talent"
"Mad Men"
"Justified"
Film:
"Magic Mike"

Past Favorites
Writers:
Flannery O'Connor
William Faulkner
Tennessee Williams
Beth Henley
Film:
"American Beauty"

06 June 2012

Matthew Quirk

Reading:
The Night Manager by John Le Carré
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Watching:
"Breaking Bad"

A Selection of Favorites:
Books:
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Books and stories by Dashiell Hammett

23 April 2012

Nick Santora

Reading:
Full of Life by John Fante
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Non-fiction by Stephen Ambrose

Watching:
Film:
"Jeff Who Lives at Home"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
"The Artist"
Television:
"The Office"
"30 Something"
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
"Boardwalk Empire"
"American Pickers"
"Workaholics"
"So You Think You Can Dance"

A Selection of Favorites:
Television:
"Taxi"
"6 Feet Under"
"The Wire"
"The Practice"
"The Sopranos"
Film:
"Mac"
"The Incredibles"

23 April 2012

Terry McDermott

Reading:
Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst
Bill James' annual abstracts

Watching:
Television:
"Top Chef"
The L.A. Clippers
The Seattle Mariners

Film:
"The Hunger Games

09 March 2012

David Mirkin

Reading:
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Freedom PM and Daemon by Daniel Suarez
The Help by Kathryn Stocket
Woody Allen essays
Diamond in the Rough by Shawn Colvin
Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
Bossypants by Tina Fey
And Then Again by Diane Keaton
My Lucky Live in and out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke

Watching:
Television:
"Mad Men"
"Homeland"
"Louis C.K."
"Enlightened"
"30 Rock"
Film:
"The Artist"
"The Descendents"
"The Help"

Past Favorites:
Television:
"The Dick Van Dyke Show"
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
"Taxi"
"Monty Python"
Film:
"The Graduate"
The films of Woody Allen
The films of Stanley Kubrick

09 February 2012

Janet Leahy

Reading:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Snippets of books, but many at once

Watching:
Film:
"Bridesmaids"
Television:
"Mad Men"
"The Office"
Huell Howser
"Storage Wars"
"Pawn Stars"

A Selection of Favorites:
Television:
"Flight of the Conchords"
"Seinfeld"
"Roseanne"
"The Cosby Show"
"Cheers"
Film:
"The Sand Pebbles"
"The Thomas Crown Affair"

03 January 2012

Brandon Camp

Reading
The Night Circusby Erin Morgenstern
Richard Ford
Mark Twain
Lemony Snicket

Watching
Films
Spielberg
Coppola
Zemeckis
Scorsese
Television
"Breaking Bad"
"Top Chef"

A Selection of Favorites
Television
"Airwolf"
"Fantasy Island"
"Knight Rider"
"Hart to Hart"
Film
"Shawshank Redemption"
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
Everything John Hughes

03 January 2012

Rina Mimoun

Reading:
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Class Warfare by Stephen Brill
Agustin Burrows
Douglas Coupland

Watching:
"Friday Night Lights"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"The Good Wife"
"30 Rock"
"The Office"
"Modern Family"
"Happy Endings"

A Selection of Past Favorites:
"The Cosby Show"
"Family Ties"
"Cheers"
"Friends"
"Sex and the City"
"Seinfeld"
"Roseanne"
"Wonder Years"

02 November 2011

Peter Knight

Reading:
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Chuck Klosterman essays.

Watching:
Television:
"Modern Family"
"30 Rock"
"The Office
"Louie"
"Curb Your Enthusiasm"
"Mad Men"
"Breaking Bad"
"Entourage"
"Rules of Engagement"
Film:
"Drive"

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Reading:
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Television:
"Seinfeld"
"Frasier"
"The Larry Sanders Show"
"The Office" (British Version)
"Get Smart"
"The Sopranos"
"The Wire"
Film:
"Purple Rose of Cairo"
"Broadway Danny Rose"
"Crimes and Misdemeanors"
"No Country for Old Men"
"The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
"Being John Malkovich"
"The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou"
"Royal Tennenbaums"
"Bottle Rocket"
"Rushmore"

08 October 2011

David Matthews

Reading:
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Lush Life by Richard Price
Hell Hound on his Trail by Hampton Sides

Watching:
Movies:
"Town"
"The Fighter"
"Planet of the Apes"
"Warrior"
Television:
"Justified"

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Reading (Authors):
James Ellroy
Joseph Wambaugh
Ross McDonald
Donald Westlake
George Pellecanos
Ed McBain
Dennis Lehane
Richard Price
Hubert Selby, Jr.
Robert Louis Stevenson
James Baldwin
Scott Frank
Lem Dobbs
David Mamet
Vladimir Nabokov
J.D. Salinger
Edgar A. Poe
Fred Exley
H.L. Menken
Movies:
"Dog Day Afternoon"
"Le Samourai"
"Pulp Fiction"
"Last Temptation of Christ"
"The Long Good Friday"
"The Trip to Bountiful"
"Out of Sight"
"The 39 Steps"
"Billy Jack"
"Bridge on the River Kwai"
"The Searchers"
"8 Million Ways to Die"
"Taxi Driver"
"Glen Garry Glen Ross"
"Fresh"
"The Philadelphia Story"
"Pope of Greenwich Village"
Television:i

"The Wire"
"The Corner"
"Starsky and Hutch"
"Police Story"
"The Blue Knight"
"Columbo"
"Remington Steele"
"Moonlighting"
"Barney Miller"
"Sanford and Son"
"Good Times"
"Get Smart"
"Three's Company"

26 September 2011

Dawn Comer Jefferson

Reading:
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Harry Potter Series
The Between by Tanarive Due
Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell

Watching:
"Law and Order" - all of them
"Being Human"
"Larry David"
"Dexter"
"The Big Bang Theory"
"MSNBC"
"What Would You do?"
"Nova"
"Toddlers and Tiaras"
"Extreme Couponing"

A Selection of Favorites:
Film:
Billy Wilder movies
Alfred Hitchcock movies
"The Sandlot"
"Field of Dreams"
"The Wedding Crashers"
"Like Water for Chocolate"
Television:
"The Sopranos"
"Alien Nation"
"The Twilight Zone"
"M.A.S.H."
"Everybody Loves Raymond"
"The Bernie Mac Show"
"All in the Family"
"Star Trek"
"I Love Lucy"
"Get Smart"
"The Honeymooners"
"The Flintstones"
Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes Cartoons
Reading:
Short stories by Zora Neal Hurston, O'Henry, Flannery O'Conner
Anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald

27 August 2011

Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder

Charmelo

Reading:
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty

Watching:
"Real Housewives of Orange County"
"Real Housewives of New Jersey"
"Mob Wives"
"Sister Wives"
"Extreme Coupooning"
"Toddlers in Tiaras"
"Hoarding"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading: Chuck Palahniuk
John Waters
Watching: "Facts of Life"
"Love Boat"
"Fantasy Island"
"Donnie and Marie"
"Dark Shadows"
"Tales from the Crypt"
"Tales from the Dark Side"
"Twilight Zone

Snyder

Reading:
In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larsen
Room by Emma Donoghue

Watching:
"The United States of Tara"
"Big Love"
"Gossip Girl"
"Beverly Hills 90210"
"The Office"
"No Reservations"

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Reading: Jacqueline Susanne
Candace Bushnell
Watching: "The Larry Sanders Show"
"Arrested Development"
"The Sopranos"
"Sex and the City"
"St. Elsewhere"
"Thirty Something"
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

14 August 2011

Robert Tannen

Reading:
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis

Watching:
Movies:
"The Secret in their Eyes"
Television:
"Breaking Bad"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
The short stories of Raymond Carver
Watching:
Movies:
"Being There"
"Caddy Shack"
"Airplane"
"Manhattan"
Television:
"The Wire"

24 July 2011

Rockne O'Bannon

Reading:
Darkness by Stephen King

Watching:
"Falling Skies"
"Torchwood"
"Friday Night Lights"

A Selection of Favorites:
Television: "The Twilight Zone"
Authors: Stephen King
Richard Matheson

13 June 2011

Brett Conrad

Watching:
Television:
"Breaking Bad"
"The Killing"
"Justified"
"Dexter"

Reading:
Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Watching:
"Wise Guy"
"The Wire"
"Deadwood"
"Buffy"
"Battlestar Galactica

Favorite Authors:
Richard Russo
Richard Ford
Salman Rushdie
Robert B. Parker

31 May 2011

Peter Blake

Watching:
Television:
"Breaking Bad"
"The Office"
"Parks & Recreation"
"30 Rock"
"Mad Men"
"The Good Wife"
Features:
"The Source Code"

Reading:
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Watching:
"The Shield"
"The Wire"
Reading:
Clockers by Richard Price
Ladies' Man by Richard Price
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Pronto by Elmore Leonard
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Towers

Favorite Authors:
J.K. Rowling
James Ellroy
Jonathan Franzen
Richard Yates

25 May 2011

Matt Michnovetz

Reading:
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

Watching:
Television:"Breaking Bad"
"Walking Dead"
"Justified"
"Dexter"
"True Blood"
"Game of Thrones"
"Hawaii 5-0"
"Metalocalypse""
"Robot Chicken"
"Californication"
"Eastbound and Down"
Films: "Social Network"
"The Fighter"
"Inception"
"127 Hours"
"The King's Speech"

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Reading:
H.P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allen Poe
Stephen King
Robert Anton Wilson
Carlos Castaneda
Chuck Klosterman
Hunter S. Thompson
Matt Taibbi
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Night Shift by Stephen King
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
Watching Television:
"The Wire"
"Flight of the Conchords
"Twin Peaks"
"Battlestar Galactica"
"The Twilight Zone"
Watching Film:
"The Godfather"
"The Exorcist"
"Star Wars"
The films of John Carpenter
Watching Documentaries
"Transcendent Man"
"Gasland"
"Inside Job"
"Dogtown and Z Boys"

11 May 2011

Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters

Fazekas

Reading:
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey

Watching:
"Children's Hospital"
"Glee"
"Family Guy"

Past Favorites:
Books and stories by Joyce Carole Oates
Books by Joan Didion
Scripts by Vince Gilligan, Chris Carter and Joss Whedon

Butters

Reading:
Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

Watching:
"Glee"
"Breaking Bad"
"Top Chef"
"The Walking Dead"

Past Favorites:
"The Sopranos"
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
"The X-Files"
Books by James Elroy
Books by Elmore Leonard

27 April 2011

Richard Hatem

Reading:
The Imperfectionist by Tom Rachman
Horns by Joe Hill
Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O'Malley

Watching:
"Parks & Recreation"
"Community"
"The Office"
"Raising Hope"
"The Middle"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Misery by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Spencer novels by Robert B. Parker
Books by James Lee Burke
Watching Films:
"Shaun of the Dead"
"Hot Fuzz"
"Scott Pilgrim"
"Harold and Maud"
"The King of Comedy"
"Roller Coaster"
"Napoleon Dynamite"
Watching Television:
"The Rockford Files"
"Party of Five"
"The X-Files"
"Barney Miller"

12 April 2011

Chris Kelley

Reading:
Dusk by James Salter
Irish Girl by Tim Johnson

Watching:
"Boardwalk Empire"
"Dexter"
"Breaking Bad"
"True Blood"
"Spartacus"

A Selection of Favorites:
Authors:
Franz Kafka
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Playwrights:
Eugene Ionesco
Samuel Beckett
William Shakespeare

Film:
"Notorious"
"Casablanca"
"Frankenstein"
"The Searchers"
"The Philadelphia Story"

21 March 2011

Kevin Hynes:

Reading:
The Petticoat Affair by John Marszalek
Decoded by Jay-Z
The Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas

Watching:
"Boardwalk Empire"
"Entourage"
"Criminal Minds"
"Justified"

A Selection of Favorites:
Poetry:
Dylan Thomas
Robert Frost

08 March 2011

Kerry Ehrin

Reading:
The "Harry Potter" series with her sons

Watching:
Friday Night Lights
The Wire

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Raggedy Ann by Johnny Gruelle
Watching:
Gilligan's Island
Family Affair
Twin Peaks
Frasier

02 March 2011

Kimberly Simi

Reading:
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Watching:
"Parenthood"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susannah Clark
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Authors: Graziella Deledda and Alan Furst
Watching:
Boston Legal
Deadwood

13 February 2011

Nicole Ranadive

Reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Confederacy of Dunces
Strain

Watching:
"The Wire"
"Justified"
"Friday Night Lights"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Stephen King
Richard Matheson
Chuck Palahniuk
William Goldman

Watching Television:
"Buffy"
"The X-Files"
Watching Film:
"Memento"
"The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

26 January 2011

Howard Rodman

Reading:
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Watching:
Bored to Death
Entourage
The Wire

A Selection of Favorites:
Authors:
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Patricia Highsmith
David Goodis
Jim Thompson
William S. Burroughs
J.G. Ballard
Philip K. Dick
Films:
Force of Evil
L'Atalante
The 400 Blows
Jules & Jim
Breathless
Trouble in Paradise
History is Made at Night
The Lady Eve

25 January 2011

Michael A. Ross

Reading:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Watching:
Television
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
30 Rock
Film
True Grit
The King's Speech

A Selection of Past Favorites:
Television
The Practice
Film
The Hurt Locker

31 December 2010

Adam Fierro

Reading:
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Watching:
"Mad Men"

A Selection of Favorites:
"The Sopranos"
"Homicide"
"Hill Street Blues"
"The Love Boat"

06 December 2010

Dana Gould

Reading:
"Obama's War" by Bob Woodward
Watching:
Charlie Rose
"Mad Men"
"Boardwalk Empire"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunne
Watching:
"The Wire"
"Dragnet" (with Jack Webb)

30 November 2010

Andrew Colville

Reading:
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
A Selection of Favorites: TBA

Films:
"Pickup on South Street"

Books:
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Books by Saul Bellow

30 November 2010

Elizabeth M. Cosin

Watching:
"Men of a Certain Age"

30 November 2010

Craig Bolotin

Reading:
"My Hollywood" by Mona Simpson
"Freedom" by David Franzen
"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel
"Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill

Watching:
"Mad Men"
"Breaking Bad"


A Selection of Favorites:

Reading:
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Herzog and Seize the Day" by Saul Bellow
"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy

Watching:
"The Wire"

30 November 2010

Melody Fox

Watching:
"Eureka"
"Leverage"
"Burn Notice"
"Rookie Blue"
"Flash Forward"
"Glee"
"CSI"

A Selection of Favorites:
"Lost"
"Torchwood

30 November 2010

Ashley Gable

Reading:
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Watching:
"The Event"
"The Glades"
"House"
"Grey's Anatomy"                              
"Modern Family"
"30 Rock"
"Raising Hope"               

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Books by Michael Connelly           

Watching:
"M.A.S.H."
"St. Elsewhere"
"Hill Street Blues"

30 November 2010

Dusty Kay

Reading:
"The Sporting News"
"ESPN Magazine"
"Rotoworld"

Watching:
"Curb Your Enthusiasm"
"30 Rock"
"The Office"
"Penn & Teller: Bullshit!"
Football

A Selection of Favorites:
"The Shield"
"24"
"The Honeymooners"

30 November 2010

John Kirk & Erik Gardner

Kirk

Reading:
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitchell

Watching:
"Dexter"
"Boardwalk Empire"
"The Walking Dead"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Watching: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Gardner

Reading:
"Hostage to the Devil" by Malachi Martin
"The Rite" by Matt Baglio

Watching:
"Supernatural"
"Curb Your Enthusiasm"
"Eastbound and Down"
"Boardwalk Empire"
"Justified"
"The Walking Dead"

A Selection of Favorites:
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

30 November 2010

Peter Lefcourt

Reading:
"Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman" by Francine du Plessix Gray

A Selection of Favorites:
"Sentimental Education" by Gustav Flaubert

30 November 2010

Mark Jordan Legan & Mark Wilding

Legan

Reading:
"Laughing Matters" by Larry Gelbart
"Hand to Mouth" by Paul Auster
"Hollywood: A Third Memoir" by Larry McMurtry

Watching:
"The Simpsons"
"Glee"
"30 Rock"

A Selection of Favorites:
"Black Adder"

Wilding

Watching:
"Parks and Recreation"
"30 Rock"

A Selection of Favorites:
Watching Film:
"Our Man in Havana"
"To Be or Not to Be" (directed by Ernst Lubitsch)
"The Producers"
Watching Television:
"Fawlty Towers"

30 November 2010

Jack LoGiudice

Watching:
"Friday Night Lights"

A Selection of Favorites:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

30 November 2010

Joanna Lovinger

Reading:
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow

Watching:
"Mad Men"
"Breaking Bad"
"Big Love"
"Damages"
"Terriers"
"30 Rock"
"The Good Wife"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Books by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, David Foster Wallace, David Eggers and Carson McCullers
Watching Films:
"The Apartment"
Films by the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson and Alexander Payne
Watching Television:
"Northern Exposure"
"Homicide"

30 November 2010

John Mandel

Reading:
"Mack Sennett's Fun Factory" by Brent Walker

A Selection of Favorites:
Watching Film:
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence"
"Bad Day at Black Rock"
Watching Television:
"Homicide"

30 November 2010

Sarah McLaughlin

Reading:
Statistics for Business and Economics (Seriously - she's getting an MBA)

Watching:
"Friday Night Lights"

30 November 2010

Nicholas Meyer

Reading:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
The Captain Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forster (who also wrote The African Queen)
Watching Film:
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
"Spartacus"
"Lawrence of Arabia"
"The Red Shoes"

30 November 2010

Ben Murray

Reading:
Don't Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Watching:
"Breaking Bad"
"Mad Men"
"Archer"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Death of a Pig by E.B. White
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Books by Stephen King
Watching Film:
"Memento"
"Spartan"
Watching Television:
"The Sopranos"

30 November 2010

Margaret Nagle

Reading:
"Post War" by Tony Judt

Watching:
"Bored to Death"
"Modern Family"

A Selection of Favorites:
Watching Film:
"Casablanca"
"The Best Years of Our Lives"

30 November 2010

Michael Oates Palmer

Reading:
Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

Watching:
"Mad Men"
"Breaking Bad"
"Covert Affairs"
"Modern Family"
"The Office"
"Rescue Me"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Crossing to Safety by Walter Stegner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
So Long See You Tomorrow by Evelyn Waugh
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Leviathan by Paul Auster
For Keeps by Pauline Kael
The Heart of Rock and Soul by Dave Marsh
United States: Essays by Gore Vidal
Watching Television:
"Thirty Something"
"Northern Exposure"
"Sports Night"
"Homicide"
"The Sopranos"
"The Shield"
"The Wire"
"It's Garry Shandling's Show"
"Moonlighting"

30 November 2010

John Rice

Reading:
Who has time to read?

Watching:
Television:
"Modern Family"
"Sons of Anarchy"
"Glee"
Film:
"Social Network"
"The Town"

A Selection of Favorites:
"Amadaeus" and other films by Milos Forman

30 November 2010

Carla Robinson

Reading:
"The Vertical Hour" by David Hare

Watching:
"Glee"
"Castle"
"Psych"
"White Collar"
"The Good Wife"

A Selection of Favorites:
"Northern Exposure"
"Picket Fences"
"Seinfeld"
"Newhart"
"Sports Night"
"West Wing"
"Frasier"
"The Wire"
"Six Feet Under"
"Lost"

30 November 2010

Ajay Sahgal

Reading:
"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky" by Heidi Durrow
"Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Four Fish" by Paul Greenberg
"Maximum City" by Suketu Mehta
"Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen

Watching:
"Nurse Jackie"
"Bored to Death"
"The Office"
"Jersey Shore"
"Wallander"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
The White Album by Joan Didion
White Noise and The Names by Don DeLillo
Watching:
"The Wire"
"Prime Suspect"

30 November 2010

Jon Sherman

Reading:
"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Watching:
"30 Rock"
"Modern Family"
"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"
"Survivor"
"Community"

30 November 2010

Ben Sokolowski

Reading:
"The Walking Dead" series of graphic novels

Watching:
"Dexter"
"The Office"
"Friday Night Lights"
"The Event"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
"The Stand" by Stephen King
"Less Than Zero" by Brett Easton Ellis
"The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
Watching:
"The Twilight Zone"
"Quantum Leap"
"The X-Files"
"Ally McBeal"
"West Wing"

30 November 2010

David M. Stern

A Selection of Favorites:
"The Andy Griffith Show"
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
"Get Smart"

30 November 2010

Phoef Sutton

Reading:
"Frank: The Voice" by James Kaplan
"L.A. Noir" by John Buntin

Watching:
TCM

30 November 2010

James Thorpe

Reading:
"The Art of Eating" by M.F.K. Fischer
"Odette" by Jerrard Tickell
"Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
"Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann
"Decoded" by Jay-Z
"The Chalk Circle Man" by Fred Vargas
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson

Watching:
"Modern Family"
"The Simpsons"
"The Good Wife"
"Sherlock"
"Damages"
"Breaking Bad"
"Mad Men"
"Wallander"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
"The Human Comedy" by William Saroyan
"Penitmento" by Lillian Helman
"Time and Again" by Jack Finney
"Collected Writings" by Jorge Luis Borges
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by Anita Loos
"My Years with Ross" by James Thurber
"1001 Afternoons in Chicago" by Ben Hecht
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman; illustrated by Loren Long (one of the most beautifully illustrated children's books ever)
Watching:
"Foyle's War"
"The Sins"

30 November 2010

Donald Todd

Reading:
"The Paperboy" by Pete Dexter
"Airships" by Barry Hannah

Watching:
"Dexter"
"Terriers"
"Detroit 187"
"Breaking Bad"
"Justified"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Buried Child by Sam Shepherd
Watching:
"The Shield"
"NYPD Blue"
"Deadwood"

30 November 2010

Neil Tolkin

Reading:
"This Is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper
"Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime" by John Heileman and Mark Halperin
"November Criminals" by Sam Munson
"The Cow in the Parking Lot" by Leonard Scheff

Watching:
"Sherlock"
"Family Guy"
"Eastbound and Down"
ESPN's "30 for 30"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Books by Dave Eggars and Michael Lewis
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (both in print and on film)

30 November 2010

Dean Widenmann

Reading:
"Rain Gods" by James Lee Burke

Watching:
"Mad Men"
"The Good Wife"
"Dexter"
"Friday Night Lights"
"The Office"
"White Collar"
"Justified"
"30 Rock"
"Californication"

A Selection of Favorites:
Reading:
"The Pillars of the Earth and A Place Called Freedom" by Ken Follett
"The Kite Runner" by Khalid Hosseini
"In Country" by Nelson DeMille
"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
"The Tender Bar" by J.R. Moehringer
"U.S. Gran: A Memoir" by Ulysses S. Grant
"A Dream of Wolves" by Michael C. White
"Los Alamos" and "The Good German" by Joseph Kanon
"Lion in Ireland" by Morgan Llywelyn
"Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield
"Revelation" by W.A. Harbinson
"Sarum" by Edward Rutherford
"Wish You Well" by David Baldacci
"A Painted House" by John Grisham
and nearly everything by James Lee Burke, Martin Curz Smith and Michael Connelly.
The great Cold War espionage trilogy by Len Deighton
The works of Jack London that never get old, and on and on and on and ...
Watching:
"Huff"
"Life"