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It's safe to say that Ben Gorham is the only guy to go from pro basketball to cooking up fragrances. After a quick stint in the Italian ...

Presidential Library: Ronald Reagan "Reagan, however, appears to have undergone a profound shift when he was given a copy of Whit...

Presidential Library: Barack Obama "See, the book's [Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness] not really about Africa. Or black...

Presidential Library: Bill Clinton "Once, instead of paying attention to the class, I read Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundr...

David Simon Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) by James Agee with photographs by Walker Evans A suburban boy's father marks up ...

Patton Oswalt A Boy and His Dog (1969) by Harlan Ellison I was being my typical asshole self one day in the seventh grade and got se...

Anthony Bourdain Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson I vividly remember my introduction to Hunter Thompson...

Tobias Wolff The Fire Next Time (1963) by James Baldwin I became a reader through the books of Albert Payson Terhune, who wrote almo...

John Jeremiah Sullivan No One Here Gets Out Alive (1980) by Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins You can't ask writers to name the m...

Roy Blount Jr. The Benchley Roundup (1954) by Robert Benchley By the tenth grade, since it is hard to build true greatness on, for i...