1. Madness and Civilization, Foucault
2. The Thin Red Line
3. Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos
4. A Clean Well Lighted Place, Hemmingway
5. The I Hate to Cook Book, Peg Bracken (“…pretty much every word she wrote”)
6. Words for the Wind, Theodore Roethke
7. The Best of James Taylor(I’m not sure my dad could actually drive without this playing)
8. Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke
9. Zoolander
10. Self-Help, Lorrie Moore

“A cousin posted a list here than posted about you on Facebook–another cousin has since added a list; it’s so interesting to see what they wrote…this is a way of knowing them. It just never came up at family reunions while I was perfecting my angst ridden teenager & they were refusing to take off the water wings & get out of the pool.”