Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
DongWon Song
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
