I just finished Will in the World, an absolutely brilliant biography on Shakespeare that uses period understanding to extrapolate an understanding of what day to day life would have been like for the world's greatest playwright. If you have any interest in Elizabethan history or Shakespeare, pick it up.
I am also reading The Brewmaster's Table, by Garrett Oliver. For those unfamiliar, Garrett is the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery. The book is great so far - a nice concise history of the US beer market and then into food pairing.
I will likely take the Shakespeare kick into a third book (I recently finished the astonishingly wonderful novel by Jess Winfield, My Name is Will), Harold Bloom's, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. I have had it on my bookshelf for 10 year (thanks Uncle Dave) and haven't made it past the first 100 pages. No better time than the present. I am often a two book man given the amount of time on spend on the subway every day.
