Tell Me What You’re Reading No. 26: Allen Guy Wilcox - A Gentleman in Moscow
Allen Guy Wilcox discusses A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles. Towles’s first novel, “Rules of Civility”, was a New York Times bestseller, and “A Gentleman in Moscow”, his second novel, was on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and was included on several “best books“ lists in 2016.
Allen is the founding Artistic Director of The Theater at Woodshill, a not for profit summer Shakespeare festival in central New York. Allen also runs a tutoring company in New York and works for Happiness Studies Academy which is in Tel Aviv and New York.
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Reviews The New York Times | NPR | The Washington Post | Kirkus Reviews | The Los Angeles Times | The Guardian
Theater at Woodshill The Theater at Woodshill is a 501c3 non-profit arts organization dedicated to bringing to life the works of William Shakespeare. Housed on a beautiful farm in upstate New York, the company believes that reinvigorating Shakespeare’s canon in our time requires a return to the basics of theatrical production, an inclusive approach to casting, and an emphasis on leveraging our programming to contextualize the plays.
The other books Allen suggested for our discussion -
Fiction
Here I Am, by Jonathan Safran Foer Review The New York Times
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth Review The New York Tmes
The Fish Can Sing, by Halldor Laxness Review The New York Review of Books
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell Review The New York Times
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami Review The New York Times
Non-Fiction
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari Review The New York Times
Shortcuts to Happiness, by Tal Ben-Shahar Review Positive Psychology News
The Strange Death of Europe, by Douglas Murray Review The Guardian | NPR
12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson Review The New York Times
Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom Reviews The New Yorker | The New Yorker
Poets
Robert Frost / John Keats / Wendy Cope / Geoffrey HIll / Ted Hughes / Wislawa Szymborska
What Howard is Reading
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made.
Reviews The New York Times | Commentary | The New York Review of Books
Allen’s bookstore selection Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers Williamsburg
