Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses -- Everything I dislike about writing -- pompousness, knowing wordiness, literary posturing, characters as merely symbols, symbols as blaring neon signposts, tendentious politics -- put together into a single book of genius. It works. I don’t know why.Read about Gawande's other nine favorites.
And check out his new book, Better.
--Marshal Zeringue
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