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Cortney Burns and Nick Balla

This book explores the notions of self-sabotaging humans, a result when society is faced with a lack of control or leadership. It is a book for our time from our time about the potential to self-destruct. It challenges readers to be aware of their surroundings and the subsequent downfall that unfolds when we are not careful about how we engage with the world.

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Cortney Burns and Nick Balla

This book explores the notions of self-sabotaging humans, a result when society is faced with a lack of control or leadership. It is a book for our time from our time about the potential to self-destruct. It challenges readers to be aware of their surroundings and the subsequent downfall that unfolds when we are not careful about how we engage with the world.

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Karley Sciortino

If I had to choose my number 1 favorite book of all time, it would be this. (And as this is widely considered one of the great American novels, I’m clearly not the only person who’s been hugely affected by it.) White Noise uses the story of a college professor and his family in small Midwestern town to explore American paranoia, consumerism, and novelty academic intellectualism. I love this book for its ability to to be dark, beautiful, smart, and hysterically funny, all at the same time.

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Michael Cunningham

Don DeLillo is my sentence god.  His sentences are more nuanced and forceful and beautiful than any sentences I know. If, upon departing for this hypothetical island, I were to be told I had to shed some weight, I could (though I’d be sorry to) just take a single DeLillo sentence with me, and read it over and over again.

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Matthew Modine

Alright, I said before that I missed Vonnegut. Well, Don DeLillo isn’t Vonnegut. And he’s not trying to be. He’s like Vonnegut and is an equal wordsmith. DeLillo is also a brilliant observer of life with a deliciously wicked sense of humor. He understands how best to employ irony and uses it to point out our collective anxieties and the absurdities of contemporary living. DeLillo is the shit.

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