Summary:
While work was going well, I was still trying to find a school for a PhD program. I got accepted into what looked like a decent program and left work to live in Florida. My brother introduced me to ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ which was a huge influence on my thinking.
Reading List 2000
- Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
- The Imaginary Girlfriend - John Irving
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- To Boulez and Beyond - Joan Peyser
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - David Eggers
- Geeks - Jon Katz
- House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
- Sweet Swing Blues on the Road - Wynton Marsalis
- Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Cities of the Plain - Corman McCarthy
- The Water Method Man - John Irving
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
- Soundpieces 2 - Cole Gagne
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hoffman
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Conversations with Iannis Xenakis - Balint Andras Varga
- The Very Persistant Gappers of Frip - George Saunders
- Troublemakers - John McNally
- The End of Alice - A. M. Homes
- Music for Torching - A.M. Homes
- Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation - Eric Nisenson
- Smile, You’re Travelling - Henry Rollins