The overrated Seinfeld

Cynthia Asquith, the first lady of horror

The San Francisco Chronicle - A boring Chuck Klosterman book that publishing wants you to pretend to care about

A largely pointless David Duchovny novel

1971, the year rock allegedly exploded (it didn't)

The perfect noir novel, Build My Gallows High

The charming subgenre of midshipman literature

The hilarity of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen and Penrod novels

Five baseball books to check out

Physics lessons

The Mysteries of Paris, a fat, fascinating, ripping yarn from 1842 that reads excellently in 2016

F. Scott Fitzgerald often wrote better works than The Great Gatsby