The Mad Men reading list featuring Frank O'Hara

If your life has simply become a question of what to do when the popular TV show Mad Men isn’t on, then Flavorpill has just done you an enormous favor, providing you with the means to emulate the likes of Don, Betty, and Joy by following their 1960’s reading lists (including, significantly, Frank O'Hara):

Perhaps the most visible book to appear on the show, Meditations in an Emergency is also the title of Mad Men’s second season finale. Way back in the first episode of that series, Don Draper meets a bohemian reading it in a bar where O’Hara happens to have composed much of the book who suggests that he’s too square to appreciate it. That, of course, is good enough to sell Don on the book. The New York School poet’s pieces, like the chaotic episode, are fraught with personal crisis.

Don Draper reading O'Hara’s “Mayakovsky” aloud? Yes, please!