Shakespeare Wrote for Money is a collection of Hornby’s articles for The Believer magazine. We’re given a list  of the books he has purchased and read every month (which, as for so many of us, the books-bought list often surpasses the books-read list) with topics that are entertainingly all over the map, along with his thoughts on them, what he was doing while reading, and so on. It’s a bit like a better version of this site, as read to you by John Cusack. sigh.

The book also has a lovingly biting intro by Sarah Vowell. Vowell is the author of Assasination Vacation, a book that I haven’t yet read (for fear that I might not know nearly enough US history to fully get it). But it’s on my to-do list for when I cross the US in a winnebago one day. One day…

While visiting Analog, Banff’s new used book store, this afternoon I picked up The Road, by Cormac Mccarthy.  Hornby describes it  (about a father and son team wandering around an apacalyptic world finding  things like babies on barbeques) as “one of the most miserable books ever written.”  And it’s won the pulitzer prize? Sold!