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By the Book: Ed Helms Snafu (2025)

NYT By the Book column (2025-05-15).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · Buy on Amazon
"One of my favorite reading experiences was standing on the New York City subway, clinging to a pole with one hand and reading "Moby-Dick" on my phone with the other. Sometimes I was so engrossed I'd get off the train and just plop down on a bench to finish a chapter."
Cover of The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"The last truly great book I read was "The Overstory," by Richard Powers."
Dava Sobel · Buy on Amazon
"It's a gripping, soulful history of the race to determine one's longitude at sea, which, I promise, is way more exciting than it sounds."
Gabor Maté · Buy on Amazon
"It's a moving, compassionate window into what living with A.D.H.D. actually feels like."
David Byrne · Buy on Amazon
"I learned how profoundly music is shaped by the spaces it's performed in. As a musician, this was a thrilling revelation."

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