Ethan Hawke

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy · 2004 · Fiction

“I read Anna Karenina backstage during a 2006 Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia , a nine-hour epic about mid-19th-century Russian radicals. So I read most of it in full Russian period costume. My advice is to re-create these circumstances whenever possible.” — via Article, June 2016

Just Kids

by Patti Smith · Memoir

“I had the great pleasure of interviewing Patti Smith recently at the Tribeca Film Festival. If you have any doubts that the punk pioneer is also one of the greatest living American poets, this book will put them to rest.” — via Article, June 2016

Once They Moved Like the Wind

Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars

by David Roberts · History

“The story of the Apache Wars needs to be told again and again until the names Geronimo and Cochise are as familiar to young American ears as Washington and Lincoln. Indeh would have been impossible to write without the brilliant research and writing David Roberts poured into Once They Moved Like the Wind . It's a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Southwest.” — via Article, June 2016

The Good Lord Bird

by James McBride · 2013 · Fiction

“If you ask me, Mark Twain can kiss McBride's butt.” — via Article, June 2016

The Collected Essex County

by Jeff Lemire · 2009 · Fiction

“This is my favorite graphic novel. The Essex County stories, which follow three generations of a farming family in Ontario, helped me understand that the possibilities of the graphic novel reach beyond anything I had ever imagined. Simple, human, touching, and funny.” — via Article, June 2016

Three Day Road

by Joseph Boyden · Fiction

“I read the book in one sitting” — via Article, June 2016