Kyle's Staff Picks

The teachings of Taoism vis-à-vis Winnie the Pooh. I can’t really think of any other way to explain it. It’s literally that simple, and that beautiful.

More fascinating than reading the gamut of works by one of the greatest authors is understanding their craft and where the stories came from. This memoir follows Hemingway in the 20s while he lived in Paris, gallivanting through cafe's and bar's with the likes of Joyce and Fitzgerald, learning from Gertrude Stein, and most importantly, discovering himself as a writer. If you say you like Hemingway but haven't read this, then, well, you must, because you'll understand him for who he was, versus what he wrote.

A true literary masterpiece. I have tried it once and failed, well, got frustrated and gave up. But now I'm tackling it with a stronger understanding of Joyce and of what the book entails. This epic follows Stephen Dedalus & Leopold Bloom on June 16, 1904, in Dublin, chronicling and intertwining their lives through the, at all times, mundane, fascinating, revolting and intricate activities of that one day. The book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories.