What books are you into?

[JHyde]

I'm re-reading Tender Is The Night by F.Scott Fitgerald. I generall prefer his short stories to his novels, which is funny because he wrote most of his short stories as a way of making money to keep him going between bigger, more important works. But this is his best novel, I think - greatly underappreciated. It's funny because when I read I pick up all the typos that his editor Max Perkins let through. Perkins wasn't a brilliant speller, but he was at the vanguard of what we know to be modern publishing, and he championed some of the most important American authors of the 20s, 30s and 40s.

I would also recommend Scott Berg's biography of Perkins which he wrote in 1979 as a postgrad thesis. Truly excellent work from a fine biographer who was to gain fame as a close friend of Katharine Hepburn and win the Pulitzer for his excellent biography of Charles Lindbergh. The Lindbergh book is one of the best biographies I have ever read.