11 November 2009

More books mentioned recently in New York City missed connections

By way of explanation: I used to do a travel column where I read different cities' missed connections and derived from them cheery lists of where to meet available people in those cities. Highly unscientific, but it was anthropologically interesting.

John Hodgman, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE (at the John Hodgman reading at B&N Union Square)
John Steinbeck, EAST OF EDEN (1 train)
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO ("furiously underlining" on the 4 train to Brooklyn)
J.D. Salinger, FRANNY AND ZOOEY (Manhattan-bound L train)
Kurt Vonnegut, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (6 train)
Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland, ed. STATE BY STATE (G train)

Honorable non-literary mention: Bennett Ave. Chupacabras.

Previously.

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