15 New Yorkers Share Their Favorite Books
New York may be the city that never sleeps because there's so much to read! Here are 15 famous New Yorkers' favorite books.
O, The Oprah Magazine | May 27, 2010
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"'Journalism always moves along a horizontal plane, telling a story,' Capote said in an interview, 'while fiction—good fiction—moves vertically, taking you deeper and deeper into character and events. By treating a real event with fictional techniques...it's possible to make this kind of synthesis.' I feel like Joan Didion, who started out as a novelist, does that. Jon Krakauer and some of the other writers on my list do it, too." —Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor Books that made a difference to Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Sportswriter and Independence Day by Richard Ford Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley |
