NIGHT-TABLE READING

NICK McDONELL

MKIT ft. THE THIRD BROTHER

CITY OF DJINNS, BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE (PENGUIN)

"It is his account of Delhi, and a great, erudite brew of weird detail—the sound of empty beer bottles in the trunk of a car speeding across the Yamuna Bridge."

LAURA MULLEAVY

DESIGNER. RODARTE

IN YOUTH IS PLEASURE, BY DENTON WELCH (EXACT CHANGE)

"Poetically descriptive and teenage—it is like John Hughes minus high school and girls. There is a beautiful passage about peach Melba being a mixture of blood and snow."

KATE MULLEAVY

DESIGNER.RODARTE

FREEDOM IS A TWO-EDGED SWORD, BY JOHN WHITESIDE PARSONS (THELEMA MEDIA)

"John Parsons's book about the occult and rocket fuel, all set in Los Angeles. John even has a crater on the far side of the moon named after him."

PHIL JACKSON

COACH.LOS ANGELES LAKERS

TREE OF SMOKE,BY DENIS JOHNSON (PICADOR)

"Denis Johnson is one of America's most versatile writers. Treeof Smokewas written a couple of years ago, and I'm looking forward to reading his new book,NobodyMove."