Charles Johnson's Reading List

The author of “Middle Passage” and, most recently, “The Way of the Writer” agrees with Sartre: “If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.”

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By the Book: Charles Johnson (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-12-22).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Don Ihde · Buy on Amazon

"What's wonderful about Ihde, who is now in his 80s, is the rigor he has brought during his long career to examining technologies of science, reading and writing, and science praxis."

Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound

Don Ihde · Buy on Amazon

"His book 'Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound' is seminal in the field."

Mushotoku Mind: The Heart of the Heart Sutra

Taisen Deshimaru · Buy on Amazon

"I didn't want it to end, because everything is here — the nature of reality, how we should live — in a deep, dharma transmission that brings peace, insight and happiness on each and every page."

The Good Lord Bird

James McBride · Buy on Amazon

"It's a masterful, hilarious work by a gifted writer whose sense of timing, comedy and irony are delicious."

Oxherding Tale

Charles Johnson · Buy on Amazon

"I often refer to my second novel, 'Oxherding Tale' (1982), as my 'platform novel'... Everything I've done since then rests on that book."

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