What I’m Reading Now:

The Artist as Critic by Oscar Wilde

St. Nicholas, by Conor McPherson

Best Movies I Saw Last Year :

Afire

Full-Time

Killers of the Flower Moon

Perfect Days

Movies I’ve Seen So Far This Year:

Le Theatre Des Matieres

A Brighter Summer Day

Return to Seoul

Best Play I Saw Last Year :

Stereophonic, by David Adjimi

Adam’s Favorite Books

Slumberland, by Paul Beatty

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton

The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino

The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas

The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene

The Spook Who Sat By the Door, by Sam Greenlee

Tripmaster Monkey, by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Country Girls Trilogy, by Edna O’Brien

Blindness, by José Saramago

Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck

The Waves, by Virginia Woolf

Adam’s Favorite Movies

Alice in the Cities

All the President’s Men

The Big Sleep

Citizen Kane

The Conversation

Days of Heaven

Dazed and Confused

Double Indemnity

The Fugitive

Ghost World

Ishtar

His Girl Friday

Hoop Dreams

Last Year at Marienbad

Minding the Gap

Office Space

Point Break

Sherlock Jr.

Shoot the Piano Player

Adam’s Favorite Albums

Blood on the Tracks, by Bob Dylan

Court and Spark, by Joni Mitchell

Elevator to the Gallows, by Miles Davis

Big World, by Joe Jackson

Exile in Guyville, by Liz Phair

Exile on Main Street, by the Rolling Stones

Hoodoo Man Blues, by Junior Wells

Imperial Bedroom, by Elvis Costello

London Calling, by The Clash

Mosquitos, by Stan Ridgway

Rumble Fish, by Stewart Copeland

Under the Sun, by Paul Kelly and the Messengers

Wave, by Patti Smith

Adam’s Favorite Plays & Musicals

(that aren’t by Shakespeare or Chekhov)

Betrayal, by Harold Pinter

Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet

The Flick, by Annie Baker

Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda (yes, actually)

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, by August Wilson

The Killer, by Eugene Ionesco

Magic, by G.K. Chesterton

Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812, by Dave Malloy

Quartermaine’s Terms, by Simon Gray

The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard

True West, by Sam Shepard

Sunday in the Park with George, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine