What is Bryon MacWilliams reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Bryon MacWilliams, author of With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths. His entry begins: Poet Derek Walcott said so much of his work depended on inspiration that he envied prose writers who returned, day after day, to the same project. But so much of my day-in-day-out prose can feel like Work that I find myself searching out especially