Grant Ginder's Reading List

"Once I visited my brother in Denver and sat on his porch for three hours reading "Pnin." It was summer, I'd taken a gummy and at some point it started raining, so I sat there a little stoned, alternating between watching the rain and giggling at Nabokov. Tough to beat."

"James Salter's "Light Years," one of the most incisive novels about the passing of time, which I read seven times while writing "So Old, So Young"."

"Sayaka Murata's delightful "Convenience Store Woman," which I'm revisiting after a trip to Japan."

"Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit," which is indispensable for teaching undergraduate writing at N.Y.U. in the age of A.I."

"I have four copies of David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," which is probably obsessive."

"Solvej Balle's "On the Calculation of Volume" series is blowing my mind!"

"Wilson Rawls's "Where the Red Fern Grows," when I was 10. It was the first book to utterly destroy me."

"Page 39 of "Catch-22.""

"I'm listening to Stacy Schiff's fascinating "The Witches: Salem, 1692," and last week I got to a part where she discussed how European witches were thought to ride hyenas to parties in the forest."