What not to read
You know, I was going to say you should read Rebecca Solnit's essay Was I a Good American in the Time of George Bush? but it'll only piss you off or make you sad or make it almost impossible to stand being alive until January 20, 2009, so read Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins or Because You Left Me A Handful of Daffodils by Max Garland or listen to James McMurtry talk to Steve Inskeep about Choctaw Bingo instead and you'll feel better.