What I’m Reading Now:
A Perfect Spy by John LeCarre
Best Books I Read in 2024:
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler
James by Percival Everett
The Hunter by Tana French
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Belonging by Nora Krug
A Delicate Truth by John LeCarre
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Horse by Willy Vlautin
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Best Movies I Saw in 2024 :
Good One
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
All We Imagine as Light
Perfect Days
About Dry Grasses
My Old Ass
Paris, Texas
Hummingbirds
Le Samourai
Days of Heaven
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Janet Planet
A Complete Unknown
Best Play I Saw Recently
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