Grading Break

Summer reading list, so far (product of a week of scribbling them down as they come to me):

• All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy (a re-read for my Santa Fe MFA residency)


• Brown, Richard Rodriguez (also for the MFA residency)


• A Theology of Reading, Alan Jacobs (ayjay)


• Heavenly Participation, Hans Boersma


• The Reckless Mind, Mark Lilla


• After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre


• Still, Lauren Winner (I’ll switch over to studying with Lauren this year)


• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace


• The End of Sexual Identity, Jenell Williams Paris


• The Fall of Interpretation, James K.A. Smith (new edition!)


• When the Kings Come Marching In, Richard Mouw


• The Group, Mary McCarthy


• Philosophical Interventions, Martha Nussbaum


• The Memory Chalet, Tony Judt


• Democracy & Tradition, Jeffrey Stout

These will be supplemented/supplanted by whatever novel I feel like reading at the moment, though The Group is, of course, a novel, as is Infinite Jest. I sort of want to read some Edith Wharton, because somehow I missed her? And I might re-read The Hunger Games, or maybe the last two, since I read them so long ago.

What are you reading this summer?