featured songs

 Mr. Maker by The Kooks
 M79 by Vampire Weekend
 My Rights Versus Yours by The New Pornographers
 Divine by Sébastien Tellier
 Hey Eugene! by Pink Martini
 Summertime Cowboy by Huskie Rescue
 Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder
 We're from Barcelona by I'm from Barcelona
 Stars by Au Revoir Simone
 Harmour Love by Syreeta

Now reading

The Ministry of Special Cases, a novel by Nathan Englander

Previous reads

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a novel by Ron Hansen

A History of the Beanbag, a collection of stories by Susan Midalia

Marilyn dernières séances, a novel by Michel Schneider

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Issue #24), a collection of stories by Dave Eggers (editor)

The Elements of Cooking, an essay by Michael Ruhlman

Mouth Wide Open, a collection of essays by John Thorne (with Matt Lewis Thorne)

My Life in France, a memoir by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme

Year of Wonders, a novel by Geraldine Brooks

The Pedant in the Kitchen, a collection of essays by Julian Barnes

Gluten-free Girl, a memoir by Shauna James Ahern

The Africa House, a novel by Christina Lamb

In Cold Blood, a novel by Truman Capote

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee

The Amateur Gourmet, a memoir by Adam D. Roberts

The Good Life, a novel by Jay McInerney

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Issue #23), a collection of stories by Dave Eggers (Editor)

Purple Hibiscus, a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Une Vie française, a novel by Jean-Paul Dubois

Restless, a novel by William Boyd

Best of Young American Novelists (2), a collection of stories by Granta, the magazine of new writing

Prep, a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

Cook Until Desired Tenderness, an illustrated book by Cleo Papanikolas

Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany, a collection of trivia by Ben Schott

This Is Not Chick Lit, a collection of stories by Elizabeth Merrick (Editor)

La Demande, a novel by Michèle Desbordes

A Tale of 12 Kitchens, a cookbook by Jake Tilson

Ishq and Mushq, a novel by Priya Basil

How We Are Hungry, a collection of stories by Dave Eggers

The Five People you Meet in Heaven, a novel by Mitch Albom

Without Feathers, a collection of stories by Woody Allen

Mangez-moi, a novel by Agnès Desarthe

August, a novel by Gerard Woodward

Les Autres, a novel by Alice Ferney

L'Institut Benjamenta, a novel by Robert Walser

Organic, Inc., a nonfiction book by Samuel Fromartz

Catch-22, a novel by Joseph Heller

Lignes de faille, a novel by Nancy Huston

Le Gourmet solitaire (in Japanese: 孤独のグルメ), a manga by Jirô Taniguchi and Masayuki Kusumi

La Vie mode d'emploi (in English: Life: A User's Manual), a novel by Georges Perec

The Culture Code, a nonfiction book by Clotaire Rapaille

The French Lieutenant's Woman, a novel by John Fowles