Peter Straub Recommends
BOOKS
Under the Net The Bell The Nice and the Good By Iris Murdoch
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Ambassadors The Wings of the Dove The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Lady in the Lake The Long Good-Bye by Raymond Chandler
Some Other Place The Right Place by Donald Harington
The Shining It by Stephen King
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Selected Poems by John Ashbery
If in Time by Ann Lauterbach
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Cold Heaven by Brian Moore
Absalom, Absalom! The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Touching Feeling Between Men by Eve Kososfsky Sedgewick
MUSIC
Bad Self Portrait by Lake Street Dive, featuring the astonishing Rachel Price
Jazz Goes to College Jazz at Oberlin Dave Digs Disney by Dave Brubeck Quartet
Kind of Blue In a Quiet Way by Miles Davis
Sundays at the Village Vanguard by Bill Evans
The Last Concert by The Modern Jazz Quartet
Way Out West by Sonny Rollins
Monk’s Dream by Thelonious Monk
Chet Baker Sings by The Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman
The President Plays (with the Oscar Peterson Trio) Jazz Giants 56 by Lester Young
Anniversary Serenity by Stan Getz
Live at Zardi’s by Oscar Peterson
Count Basie on Columbia, 1938-39 If I’m Lucky Warm Tenor by Zoot Sims
Spring Symphony Canticles Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten, conducted by Britten
Beethoven Piano Sonatas by Daniel Baremboin
Les Annes des Pelerinage by Lizst, played by Alfred Brendel
Song of Sunset Song of the High Hills A Village Romeo and Juliet by Delius
Symphonies 3, 5, 7 and 8 by Mahler, various conductors
Fourth, Fifth, and Eight Book of Madrigals by Monteverdi, The Consort of Music with Anthony Rooley
The Emma Kirkby Collection Time Stands Still by Emma Kirkby & Anthony Rooley
The Charm of the Highway Strip, 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out by Yo La Tengo
Circus Songs by The Tiger Lillies
The Ring Quartet Parsifal Tristan and Isolde by Wagner
Capriccio Die Frau Ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss
Lulu by Alban Berg (well, everything by Alban Berg)