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Matthew Weiner's Reading List

The creator of "Mad Men" cites the impact of John Cheever's fiction on the show: "Cheever has a voice filled with irony and comedy and pain that, on some level, I'm always seeking to emulate."

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By the Book: Matthew Weiner (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-04-24).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · Buy on Amazon
"I read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in college during a semester abroad in Spain and was on a train when I finished it, surrounded by strangers, dumbstruck that it was over and marveling that all of this came out of a human being."
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · Buy on Amazon
""Love in the Time of Cholera" seems to come up once a month, even though I read it 20 years ago."
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq · Buy on Amazon
""The Elementary Particles," in particular, felt deeply original and modern, and shocked me with its mixture of the poetic and the profane. He's a very honest writer."
Cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · Buy on Amazon
Sex and the Single Girl
Helen Gurley Brown · Buy on Amazon
"Through both of these women's exquisite writing, I felt I was presented with the deep conflict that existed in my female characters of that period."
Cover of The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Twenty-One Balloons
The Twenty-One Balloons
William Pène du Bois · Buy on Amazon

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