Photo: Courtesy of the retailers In our ongoing effort to provide productive distractions from what’s happening outside of your windows and on your screen right now, we turned to 23 authors, from Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of the Arts winners to rising literary stars, to ask them about the books they themselves are turning to for an escape from the present moment.
$16 at Indiebound Buy “Oranges” by John McPhee $15 “In times that feel disastrous and huge, I like to read about things that are small and beautiful. In this slim book, McPhee describes the botany and history of oranges, from lovers in ancient Italy who washed themselves in orange-flower water, to present street vendors in Trinidad and Tobago who sell glistening orange halves sprinkled with salt. Each of the book’s precise, reverent chapters feels like a meditation.
$18 at Indiebound Buy “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt $20 “There’s a part of me that wants escapism, maximalist plot, and a brick of a book — something that’ll keep one busy for a while. In that vein, I love The Goldfinch — a brainy heist novel that it includes the Metropolitan Museum and international travel .” —Emily Nemens, editor of the Paris Review and author of The Cactus League
$16 at Indiebound Buy “Everything is Under Control” by Phyllis Grant $25 “During this time of great uncertainty I recommend this book. It’s billed as a memoir with recipes, but Grant’s point of view is uniquely sensual and grounding. Think James Salter meets Ruth Reichel meets Marguerite Duras. Phyllis Grant was a promising ballerina who began her freshman year at Julliard in the 1990s. Lucky for us, she took a detour and discovered cooking with an intensity that rivals Anthony Bourdain.
$17 at Indiebound Buy “A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle $16 “This book about an English couple that moves to Provence is told in these little vignettes about life in the South of France that are completely charming and low stakes. Probably the most stressful part of the book is when they spend a chapter trying to get a massive stone table moved into the courtyard of their 200-year-old home.
$12 at Indiebound Buy “The Western Wind” by Samantha Harvey $16 “Whenever things are weird or difficult for me, I turn to the Middle Ages. I know that’s extremely odd — what on earth could be comforting about a landscape plague-ridden, war-ridden, violent and brutish? But I find that there’s a strange sort of space that can be made in the middle of modern chaos when we look to how people before us created order and peace in similarly chaotic times. It’s comforting to me to read their stories.
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