JULY 2017 34 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM {what are you reading} BOOKMARKED Where Frontdoors Media asks high-profile Valley visitors and residents what books they have been reading. Bruce Hornsby, who will play Celebrity Theatre on July 6 with his band the Noisemakers. A multigenerational story about a South Texas ranching and oil family going back to the founder of the family who was as a kid in the 1850s captured by Comanches – it tells the story from that generation on through. I’ve also gone back to a lot of the classics. I’ve just gone back to a new translation of “The Iliad” (by Homer). And then another one, “The Aenied” (by Virgil). I was also reading Robert Graves’s book “The Greek Myths” - maybe I’m just so horrified by the modern world I want to go back to ancient Greece or something. W H AT B R U C E I S R E A D I N G The last five books I’ve read are, latest first: 1. A short story collection by the great writer Don Delillo, “The Angel Esmeralda” 2. A collection from the late poet Bill Knott, “I Am Flying Into Myself” 3. Robbie Robertson’s memoir “Testimony” 4. Thomas Pynchon, “Inherent Vice” 5. David Foster Wallace, “The Pale King” I loved all of these, maybe especially the Wallace. “Infinite Jest” is his most famous work, but I prefer this last, unfinished novel. All of these writers are very special, and Delillo, Wallace and Pynchon take me to new places I’ve never been before. Philip Caputo, author of “A Rumor of War” and “Crossers,” (who recently appeared at a Changing Hands book signing in Phoenix) W H AT P H I L I P I S R E A D I N G

JULY 2017 FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM | 35 BOOKMARKED EVENTS Red, White and BBQ BARNES & NOBLE AT DESERT RIDGE Wednesday, July 19. 7pm. Free. Bruce Arians, “The Quarterback Whisperer” Come meet your Cardinals head coach and learn more about how he coaches young men to greatness. POISONED PEN Thursday, July 13. 7pm. Free. Beatriz Williams, “Cocoa Beach” Escape to Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach for a historical fiction thriller. CHANGING HANDS Monday, July 31. 7pm Chris Bianco, “Bianco: Pizza, Pasta, and Other Food I Like” The artisanal pizza creator from our own backyard is launching his new cookbook sharing some of the secrets at the pizza stone. Will there or will there not be samples? Mouths watering at the thought. Meghan Leatherman | CONTRIBUTING WRITER Red, White and BBQ: that’s our theme for the month of July and our son’s first birthday party. In between scrolling Pinterest for party ideas, I found several local “celebrities” will be in town promoting Prohibition-era fiction, pizza and football. Sounds like a good month of reading - what’s more American than that?!