All this month we’re featuring a selection of fantastic summer reading selected by the experts at O: The Oprah Magazine. See more topics here.
They say don’t meet your heroes, lest they disappoint you…. We say you should bring them along on vacation. These vivid portraits of rock luminaries, poets, provocateurs, and literary lights will provide scintillating companionship wherever summer finds you.
Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman (Little Brown)
What’s left to reveal about one of the most chronicled musicians of the 20th century? As it turns out, a great deal. With the notoriously guarded McCartney’s “tacit approval,” Norman sheds new light on well-known Beatles stories and then goes further, forging a thoroughly absorbing account of McCartney’s life after the group’s breakup: business ventures, parenthood, personal tragedy, the struggle to live and create beyond the legacy of his fabled band. The result is a tantalizing trip down the legend’s own long and winding road. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley Blume (HMH)
Few writers mythologized their own misbehavior with more gusto than Ernest Hemingway. In this history of the Spanish sojourn that inspired The Sun Also Rises, we encounter Hemingway before his fame—a charming, at times cruel social climber on the cusp of brilliance. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
A Loaded Gun by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press)
Still obsessed with his subject years after writing the 2010 novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Charyn converts his preoccupation into a magnetic nonfiction reevaluation of the mystifying, radical, perhaps bisexual, and maybe greatest-ever American poet. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow (Ecco)
A magnificent biography of an artist who trained her lens on unconventional subjects drag queens, circus performers, dominatrixes—knowing there were “things that nobody would see unless I photographed them.” Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
The Sun and the Moon and the Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen (Random House)
A “rock-’n’-roll monotheist” riffs with revivalist fervor on the sacred relics of his devotion: Mick, Keith, and their music, “a saga in which a handful of musicians stand for the longings of a society. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by Cynthia Ozick (HMH)
Audacious, outrageously erudite, trenchant, and cranky as ever, one of our leading women of letters fixes her steely gaze on the essential role of the critic in witty, absorbing essays that encompass such literary heroes as Saul Bellow, W.H. Auden, and Franz Kafka. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Looking for more inspirations for your summer reading? Explore more of The Best Books of Summer from the editors of O: The Oprah Magazine, in the B&N Review or in the pages of this month’s issue of O: The Oprah Magazine.
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Sig Nordal 