A funny little interview with Joseph Epstein:
“On your nightstand now:
Three books: The Stories of Sholem Aleichem, High Financier, a Niall Ferguson biography of the German banker Simon Warburg, and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire, a splendid historical novel about the Spartans’ stand against the Persians at Thermopylae.
Favorite book when you were a child:
John R. Tunis’s All-American.
Your top five authors:
Leon Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Max Beerbohm and George Santayana.”
(via Shelf Awareness for Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | Shelf Awareness)
