Media: Books
Title: Where the Reading Takes You
This past autumn I began a reading project I first heard on KUOW public radio. You start with one book. The second book you read will be inspired by some idea, theme, character, etc. in the first. Qualities in this second book inspire a third title, and so on until the project ends or you start again from a new book. I am now beginning book seven of the project: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Here is the run down of where the reading has taken me.
1. American Movie Critics: this is an anthology of film criticism.
2. The Immediate Experience by Robert Warshaw: I chose this book because Warshaw’s essays on Chaplin and on gangster films were two favorites in American Movie Critics.
3. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: Warshaw had a surprisingly negative essay of Death of a Salesman in The Immediate Experience.
4. Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I chose this novel because Rabbit is a character like Biff Loman, a middle class man living in quiet desperation whose best days were in high school on a sports team.
5. Rabbit, Redux by John Updike: I was taken with Rabbit and wanted to know what happened next.
6. W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography of Race: I chose this biography of Du Bois because race relations played a major role in Rabbit, Redux set in the summer of 1969.
7. Now I begin Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. – since there is a direct line from Du Bois as leader of black America to King.
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