Highlights of 2016 reading

1. Winter Luncheon: 14 Dec 2016
Winter Break Reads
Reading Highlights from 2016

2. 2016 purchases
600+ new print books
598 new CDs
100’s new LPs
New print periodicals:
Paris Review
New York Times Sunday edition
Economist

3. Interlochen
Alums

4. I went for three years,
and I loved these eight
week reprieves…
“Guiding America’s Gifted
Youth” was its slogan,…
Working at art, dreaming of art,
being passionate and gaily
pretentious about art, being
competent to good to exceptional
art—all this was given. You were
normal and you were
outstanding….(134)

5. “Even Van Cliburn wore the corduroys and blue when he
visited to play for us.”

6. He was friends
with everyone….
✤ Yet he also sat for hours talking
to budding musicians at
gatherings such as the
Interlochen National Music
Camp in Michigan, sharing ice
creams and munching through
heaps of hamburgers between
rehearsing, playing, and
sometimes conducting as often
as three times in a day. (286)

7. Xenophobia
–dictionary.com 2016 word of the year

12. Series

13. The Tempest
The Merchant
of Venice
The Winter’s
Tale
The Taming of
the Shrew

14. Sciences

16. Big Beautiful Books

20. Sandow Birk

21. Lannan Conversation

22. Time

23. Gleick firmly
believes time
travel is not
possible but he
cannot prove it.
Our lives are full of time
travel—imaginations that
are real—books are time
machines where we use our
brains, which is liberating.
—Chicago Humanities Festival

24. We are at risk, without quite fully
realizing it, of living lives that are
less our own than we imagine.
As William James
observed, we must reflect
that, when we reach the
end of our days, our life
experience will equal
what we have paid
attention to, whether by
choice or default. (7)

27. Like love, there can never
be too much ‘good
music.’
(Beethoven, Brahms & Blues)
Interlude 1: On Manic Record
Collectors
Interlude 3: Eugene Ormandy’s
Baton
Sixth Conversation: “There’s No
Single Way to Teach. You Make It
Up as You Go Along.”
(Playlist)

28. ✤ Jim Harrison
✤ C.D. Wright
✤ William Trevor
✤ Leonard Cohen
✤ Gene Wilder
✤ Prince
✤ David Bowie
In remembrance of…

29. ✤ NPRs Book Concierge
✤ Brainpickings Best 2016
✤ New Yorker Best 2016
✤ Huffington’s Best Fiction 2016

30. Wishing All a Reading-Filled Holiday!