By Chris Stewart: Pluck

"He played a joke."

-- Peter Jancovic, guitarist

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You gotta play your jokes.

Read in 2010

True Grit, by Charles Portis
Nebraska: Stories, by Ron Hansen
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Humbling, by Philip Roth
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Oil!, by Upton Sinclair
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wait! I Want to Tell You a Story, by Tom Williams
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct, by Mo Willems
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster, by Mo Willems
The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
Can I Keep Him? by Steven Kellogg
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Theatre, by David Mamet
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable, by David Rees
The Orthodox Church, by Timothy Ware
Ballistics: Poems, by Billy Collins
Clorinda Takes Flight, by Robert Kinerk
Isn't It Romantic?, by Ron Hansen
The Nerd, by Larry Shue
Junior Play-Readings, by Louise M. Frankenstein
Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis
Short Scenes and Monologues for Middle School Actors, by Mary Hall Surface
The Conformers, by Jack Wohl
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris

Books/Plays Read In 2009

American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater, by Elizabeth Swados
Awesome Plays for Teens & Tweens, ed. Christina Hamlett
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Coretta Scott King and the Fight for Freedom, by Mary Tensing
Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 1996: One-Act Plays, ed. Marisa Smith
Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 1997: One-Act Plays, ed. Marisa Smith
Everyman, by Philip Roth
Holiday Follies, by Kelly Germain
How Does A Poem Mean?, by John Ciardi
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
New Plays from ACT's Young Conservatory, ed. Craig Slaight
One-Act Plays for Acting Students, ed. Norman A. Bert
Side Man, by Warren Leight
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays, Ed. by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000, ed. Glenn Young
The Breast, by Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth
The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Tom Sawyer: An Original Musical, Adapted by Kelly Germain from the Book by Mark Twain
Town Mouse, Country Mouse, by Kelly Germain
Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation, ed. Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Why We Can't Wait, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Books/Plays Read in 2008

By Chris Stewart