Books to Read

Liberation: Diaries 1970-1983

by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell

 

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard



 

Looking for The Gulf Motel: A Book of Poetry

by Richard Blanco

 

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin

by Lawrence Weschler

 

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

 

Grace: A Memoir

by Grace Coddington

 

Knoll Design

by Massimo Vignelli and Eric Larrabee

 

What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography Larry Rivers

by Larry Rivers and Arnold Weinstein

 

Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit

edited by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandani

 

Oh The Glory Of It All

by Sean Wilsey

 

Baldwin Kingrey: Midcentury Modern in Chicago, 1947-1957

by John Brunetti

 

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Houses

by Barbara Buhler Lynes and Agapita Judy Lopez

 

My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community and Labor History

by John D'Emilio

 

Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young

by Gordon Young

 

Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem

by Chris Wilson

 

Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

by Christopher Bascom Rawlins

 

Rules for Radicals

by Saul Alinsky

 

Leaving Everything Most Loved

by Jacqueline Winspear

 

Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

by Maria Semple

 

Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls

by David Sedaris

 

I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters

by Bayard Rustin, Michael G. Long (author), Julian Bond (editor)

 

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

by John D'Emilio

 

Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey

by Fenton Johnson

 

Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck

 

Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes

by Jane Thompson and Alexandra Lange

 

Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975-1983