Reichl Would Require President to Read Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (and Other Snapshots From Her 'By the Book')

Our hearts are warmed by food writer Ruth Reichl's contribution to the New York Times's "By the Book" series. In addition to suggesting that the president read Ocean Vuong's forthcoming book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Reichl's recent purchase of The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams, yielded a remarkable discovery [spoiler alert]: her father, Ernst Reichl, designed it! This, we learn in response to NYT's question: 

What do you plan to read next?

I just bought “The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams”; I’ve always loved his poems. Since I borrowed one for the title of my latest book, I decided it was time I found out more about him. I sent away for a first edition, and when it arrived I was thrilled to discover that my father had designed the book.

Read on at the New York Times.