Writers Read. Readers Write. That's my belief.

Here, then, are a few of my favorite books and magazines:

Books
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
The Culture Code, Clotaire Rapaille
Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
Essential Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Getting Mother's Body, Suzan-Lori Parks
The Liars Club, Mary Karr
On Writing, Stephen King
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
QuirkyAlone, Sasha Cagen
Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita Golden Gelman
The Gift, Hafiz
The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Nine Nations of North America, Joel Garreau
The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida
The United States of Europe, T.R. Reid

Magazines
Bitch
Details
Entertainment Weekly
National Geographic Traveler
Oxford American