A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius on Hiroshima: “long enough to provide Toph with a degree of comfort, stability, of peace and well-being before drifting off to his child's slumberland — We're reading John Hersey's Hiroshima.”
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius on Catch-22: “Before that was Catch-22, though we didn't finish that—with the obscure (for him) references and all the characters, it was taking us an hour to get through each page.”
The Every on The Crucible: “But compared to the Everyones around her, she felt like an extra in The Crucible.”
The Every on Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia: “She’d read a few books on being undercover, including Donnie Brasco’s, and most of the narrators warned against complacency— becoming too accustomed to the surroundings, too sympathetic to the players.”