Ken Ilgunas

I’d love it if someone, whose tastes are similar to my own, would give me a syllabus of decent books to read, to save me the trouble of having to sample and discard so many. With that in mind, I’ve decided to list my favorite books for those of you who may also be struggling. This list is as unpretentious as I could make it. Many books that I respect but that didn’t agree with me (Joyce’s Ulysses for instance), didn’t make this list. The following books are simply my favorite

It’s publication day! This Land Is Our Land is available at your local bookstore. Here’s one last pitch (of several last pitches) to buy my book… You will learn a lot about your country. I know this because, to write this book, I had to learn a lot about our country. Forget the right to roam and the more radical aspects of the book. You can be completely against my theories on private property, and still get a lot out of this. I spend one chapter giving the WHOLE history of p

[I was recently interviewed by a newspaper in Lithuania. Here’s the transcript of the interview.] What is the purpose of your visit to Lithuania? I was curious. I wanted to walk Lithuania’s city streets and forest paths and imagine myself as one of my Lithuanian ancestors. I thought that maybe I could come to understand something more about myself. Could I, after over a hundred years, still in some way be Lithuanian? Obviously I have a Lithuanian name, but I wondered if I mig