Nightstands & Coffee Tables
Originally Published, BayouLife Magazine
May, 2014
Four Masterpieces to Becoming a Well-Rounded Reader
Sitting at a dinner party, you hear two friends discussing characters and events that sound familiar, and you start to play closer attention. They’re talking about a book, a classic that maybe you were supposed to have read when you were in high school. But you didn’t. Consigned to silence, you think to yourself, “This sounds like a good story. I wish I had read it.” Who hasn’t been there, right? With Summer just around the corner, now is as good a time as any to knock the dust off of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, snuggle up with Mr. Steinbeck, or get to know Nabokov and Walker. Here are four masterpieces of 20th Century literature that every serious reader should read.