 So I get that you may not have that much spare time, given all that you do, but if you're going to read something for fun in your spare time, what's that likely to be? Research aside. Narrative nonfiction, the great contemporary masters, John McPhee, Tracy Kitter, plus the wonderful old masters of essays, E. B. White, Red Smith, Twain of course, always Twain. Well, Twain is completely symptomatic for the people I love to read, because you not only get the paramount stylus, the non-paré of stylus, but you can also see through the writing, it's a window onto how the man's mind works, and that I love.