Hollywood Cafe, San Francisco. Photo by Mr. Blue
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
A Clearing in the Distance Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm by Steven I. Apfelbaum
Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis, John Wasik
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
The Introspective Engineer by Samuel C. Florman
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's Fair on the Brink
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: a novel by David Wroblewski
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Value Redesigned: New Models for Professional Practice. Kyle V. Davy
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
Highly Recommended
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts Emotions and Action, Winifred Gallagher
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
To the Last Man, Jeff Shaara
The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building,Michael Gross
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, James Howard Kunstler
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough &Michael Braungart
Highly Recommended
Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander
Highly Recommended
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Highly Recommended
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard Kunstler
Highly Recommended
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Christopher Alexander
Highly Recommended
