Ian Frazier's Reading List

“Supposedly it’s the largest animal-made structure visible from space,” says the journalist and humorist Ian Frazier, whose latest book is “Cranial Fracking.” “I would like to write about it myself, but no editors are interested.”

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By the Book: Ian Frazier (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-11-24).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges · Buy on Amazon

"whose essays are like humor pieces, only more brilliant, and beyond funny"

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920 · Buy on Amazon

"The descriptions of Manhattan in the 1870s — the houses, the streets, the clothes people wore — knocked me flat, especially because you can look at some of the same places today and it's as if you never saw them until you read her."

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon

"The book is a great work of art because of the cataclysmic Dostoyevsky."

The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself

Avvakum Petrovich · Buy on Amazon

"a fanatic, a mad fulminator, and he dared the authorities to make a martyr of him, which they finally did. But somehow he kept a sense of perspective about his crazy self."

Ravelstein

Saul Bellow · Buy on Amazon

"totally thrilling and absorbing"

What I'd Say to the Martians

Jack Handey · Buy on Amazon

"Jack Handey's humor collection, "What I'd Say to the Martians," can be read again and again."

Untrue Stories of Fiction

Jack Handey · Buy on Amazon