Favorite Books
I started making a list but lists just end up going on forever, so instead I’ll try this: here is the one book from each category that I think you should read.
If you do, get back to me and let me know if I’ve steered you wrong.
Writing
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace: Not a writing book per se, but it’s the book that opened my eyes and made me say, “Yes, I want to do this here.”
Finance
Buffett by Roger Lowenstein: I became a loyal subject after this.
Advertising
Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan: Similar to the DFW book in that I went, “Hold on now, this sounds promising” for the very first time.
Literature
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: Clearly the toughest of the categories, but reading this in Paris, as a student with little money, as I walked around the city and looked up at the same sky Hem did . . . well, you just can’t beat that.
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