Memoir: Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town, Sarah Payne Stuart

Fiction: The Free World, David Bezmozgis

Writing: Wired for Story, by Lisa Kron

History: Dying Everyday: Seneca at the Court of Nero, James Romm

Music: How Do You Do, Mayer Hawthorne

TV: Endeavor, Russell Lewis, PBS

Movie: Red Army, Gabe Polsky

Ancient Inspiration: “Someone who dies by his own weapons dies twice over.” Publilius Syrus