12 favorite books, currently

in

  • STONER (John Williams, 1965)

  • THE BLACK DAHLIA (James Ellroy, 1995)

  • RED HARVEST (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)

  • WAR AND PEACE (Leo Tolstoy, 1869)

  • THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (Ursula K Le Guin, 1969)

  • MIDDLEMARCH (George Eliot, 1872)

  • FRANKENSTEIN (Mary Shelley, 1818)

  • THE BODY ARTIST (Don DeLillo, 2001)

  • BLINDNESS (José Saramago, 1995)

  • SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Ray Bradbury, 1962)

  • KINDRED (Octavia Butler, 1979)

  • THE MEMORY POLICE (Yoko Ogawa, 1994)

12 favorite films, currently

in

  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone, 1968; 20+ year reign at the top continues)

  • HEAT (Michael Mann, 1995)

  • THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941)

  • ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (Peter Hunt, 1969)

  • PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

  • REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

  • CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)

  • PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, 1984)

  • CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)

  • HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)

  • PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

  • ALPHAVILLE (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)