Just 34 Seconds of Your Time...Like public radio, we're ad-free, but unlike public radio, we don't want your money. However, we do want 34 seconds of your time. It's a fair trade, isn't it, all these book recommendations for less than a minute? The 7 Best Novels About WASPsa book list by Tad Friend, Author of Cheerful MoneyThe dyed-in-the-wool Wasp tends not to write much of anything: both Isabella Stewart Gardner and J.P. Morgan displayed the maxim "Think much, speak little, write less" in their homes. And certainly that Wasp wouldn't write a revealing book. James Gould Cozzens, a Wasp novelist of a half-century ago, remarked that his father didn't "think writing was man's work. I still think he was right, if the truth were told. If I could have been a really efficient athlete, I never would have written another line." So the best books about Wasps are written by those ambivalent about the legacy, or striving to be accepted within its cozy confines, or fed up with the whole thing.
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Flashlight Worthy Recommending books so good, they'll keep you up past your bedtime. more... About Tad Friend Tad Friend is the author of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the magazine's "Letter from California." Stay in Touch Sharing is Caring Newest book lists Robert Rodi’s Favorite Books About Italy Fractured Novels that Mirror the Uncertainty of Everyday Life Coming-of-Age Novels That Rocked My World Enlightening Reads for Today's British Invasion The Best GLBT Young Adult Novels of the New Century Literary Pen Pals -- Books of Letters The Great Divide: Race Relations From Slavery to Present Day |
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