Mario Batali: five great American books

Mario Batali is the author of the James Beard Award-winning Molto Italiano, the newly released Italian Grill, and other cookbooks.At Powells.com, he named "Five Great American Books:"The Autobiography of Ben FranklinMoby-Dick by Herman MelvilleThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerPost Office by Charles BukowskiLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisRead Batali's Powells.com interview.--Marshal