Famous Authors' Guilty Pleasures
What do writers read when they don't want to work? We asked some big names from the literary world what they dip into for enjoyment; the answers are instructive, about both writers and pleasure. Enjoy
My guilty pleasure this summer will be to sit on my screened porch and read New Yorker writers of the past: A.J. Liebling's The Road Back to Paris, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris and The Honest Rainmaker. And Joe Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel and others. Liebling wrote about boxing, food, rogues and war, all of which I like to read about. But what I'm really after this summer is the pleasure of sophisticated city life, New York and Paris, seen from the distance of a summer dusk in a Long Island village, cicadas going full blast. If I were actually in a city, I'd probably sit by the air conditioner and read English country novels.
Furst's latest book, The Spies of Warsaw, came out in June
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