A presidential reading list from the first family.
Click here for more books the Obamas purchased at Politics and Prose on Small Business Saturday.
“For me, seven years is fast. Most of my pieces have taken ten to twelve years from the time of the initial impulse to the day I abandon them, and I’ve gone as long as twenty-five years.”
The New Yorker interviews Denis Johnson. Listen to the author read his story “Hippies” here, and listen to Wallace Shawn read an excerpt from “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking” here.
#NBAwards Winner Denis Johnson has a new short story in this week’s New Yorker.

