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Sarah Ruhl's Reading List

The playwright and author, most recently, of “The Oldest Boy” says what moves her most in literature is “the writer who says: Here I stood! I loved the world enough to write it all down.”

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By the Book: Sarah Ruhl (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-02-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Maggie Nelson · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 2015 · Buy on Amazon
"whose “The Argonauts” I devoured"
Gustave Flaubert · Buy on Amazon
"The last great book I read. . . . It was probably the Lydia Davis translation of “Madame Bovary.”"
Katherine Mansfield · Buy on Amazon
"I love how Mansfield captures states of being. And then pulls the rug out from under the reader and shows us how external reality actually has very little to do with internal states of being."
Elizabeth Bishop · Buy on Amazon
"I find that poem formally perfect, and emotionally hard-won."
Tina Fey · Buy on Amazon
"I laughed out loud reading Jonathan Franzen’s “Corrections”; Mary-Louise Parker’s “Dear Mr. You” and Tina Fey’s “Bossypants.”"
Cover of The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · Buy on Amazon
"I laughed out loud reading Jonathan Franzen’s “Corrections”"
Maud Hart Lovelace · Buy on Amazon
"The book suggests that people from the Midwest (I’m from Illinois) can be writers, and retain a sense of irony. And still try to be good."
Virginia Woolf · Buy on Amazon
"Without a doubt, it was reading “A Room of One’s Own” in Raissa Landor’s great-books class when I was 17."
Marilynne Robinson · Buy on Amazon
"maybe I’ll borrow the Christmas present that I gave to my mother, that I really wanted for myself: “The Givenness of Things,” by Marilynne Robinson."

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