We had reached the naked soul of man. South was the most serious book I read. I don’t mean it was the first “big boy” or “historical non-fiction” book I have ever read. Instead, it was the most dire book I had ever read— containing the cleanest account of exploration, degradation, and jubilation. One night,…

by Kurt Vonnegut “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” What a wonderful, obscenely funny, and quirky overlooked sci-fi classic this novel was. As slow as I was to get through it, there was hardly a moment I didn’t want to read it; I just never found the time.…

by Ray Bradbury I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I first read this book in early high school and did not see the hype. I didn’t think it deserved to be called a masterpiece, not even close to “one of the good classics.” But for some reason this year, I…