15 New Yorkers' 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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
"'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
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
Published 05/27/2010