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Sept 19 2010
In my library: Eric Bogosian
Last Updated: 12:21 AM, September 19, 2010
`I made a deal with myself,' says Eric Bogosian. `Once a year, I read
a classic I supposedly read in high school, like `Moby Dick' or
`Ulysses.' I'll sit and seriously hit the book, and sometimes listen
to the audiobook at the same time.'
Bogosian - the `Talk Radio' writer and star who's also a monologist,
novelist and erstwhile Frank Zappa collaborator - hardly lacks for
projects. Starting Thursday, he's in `Time Stands Still,' playing
editor to Laura Linney's wounded journalist. He's also working on a
book about WWI, oil politics, Turkey and Armenia. `I have a library in
my office of 150 books I've been clawing my way through,' he tells The
Post's Barbara Hoffman. `My eyes were falling out of my head!' Here
are some books he says he's read recently `for fun.'
Aubrey Reuben
Eric Bogosian
Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker
I learned about the book from a podcast by Dave Emory, who loves to
talk about conspiracies. It's a book deeply researched by an
absolutely legitimate investigator who decided to go digging around
some things he never quite understood about the Bush dynasty. The
little facts he comes up with are so tantalizing, you have to keep
turning the page.
The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
In the late 1800s, it became very fashionable to travel across the
Atlantic. Missionaries had established outposts and curious Americans
were looking at the pyramids. Twain wrote this like a reporter, and he
is so funny. How can a man from 140 years ago make me laugh? I think
it was his first hit book.
Indignation
by Philip Roth
Roth's a fascinating writer because he's kind of an outsider who's
become the ultimate insider - he's won every major award except the
Nobel. I think he wants to win it so he's shifted away from his crazy
vitriolic books of his mid-period, but he can't get away from his
sense of humor . . . This one's about a young soldier during the
Korean War, and his life as a student before he goes off to the
battlefield.
Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
My friend Bennett Miller's directing a film about it. It's about
baseball, and managing a low-budget baseball team using a new
approach. I'm a big Yankees fan, but I hadn't realized the revolution
in how these teams were put together. Michael Lewis knows how to tell
a story.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/in_my_library_eric_bogosian_XvXWSLHjgvcueE3215Y5bK
From: A. Papazian
Sept 19 2010
In my library: Eric Bogosian
Last Updated: 12:21 AM, September 19, 2010
`I made a deal with myself,' says Eric Bogosian. `Once a year, I read
a classic I supposedly read in high school, like `Moby Dick' or
`Ulysses.' I'll sit and seriously hit the book, and sometimes listen
to the audiobook at the same time.'
Bogosian - the `Talk Radio' writer and star who's also a monologist,
novelist and erstwhile Frank Zappa collaborator - hardly lacks for
projects. Starting Thursday, he's in `Time Stands Still,' playing
editor to Laura Linney's wounded journalist. He's also working on a
book about WWI, oil politics, Turkey and Armenia. `I have a library in
my office of 150 books I've been clawing my way through,' he tells The
Post's Barbara Hoffman. `My eyes were falling out of my head!' Here
are some books he says he's read recently `for fun.'
Aubrey Reuben
Eric Bogosian
Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker
I learned about the book from a podcast by Dave Emory, who loves to
talk about conspiracies. It's a book deeply researched by an
absolutely legitimate investigator who decided to go digging around
some things he never quite understood about the Bush dynasty. The
little facts he comes up with are so tantalizing, you have to keep
turning the page.
The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
In the late 1800s, it became very fashionable to travel across the
Atlantic. Missionaries had established outposts and curious Americans
were looking at the pyramids. Twain wrote this like a reporter, and he
is so funny. How can a man from 140 years ago make me laugh? I think
it was his first hit book.
Indignation
by Philip Roth
Roth's a fascinating writer because he's kind of an outsider who's
become the ultimate insider - he's won every major award except the
Nobel. I think he wants to win it so he's shifted away from his crazy
vitriolic books of his mid-period, but he can't get away from his
sense of humor . . . This one's about a young soldier during the
Korean War, and his life as a student before he goes off to the
battlefield.
Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
My friend Bennett Miller's directing a film about it. It's about
baseball, and managing a low-budget baseball team using a new
approach. I'm a big Yankees fan, but I hadn't realized the revolution
in how these teams were put together. Michael Lewis knows how to tell
a story.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/in_my_library_eric_bogosian_XvXWSLHjgvcueE3215Y5bK
From: A. Papazian