Bookish Diversions: What’s Bono Reading?

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¶ What Bono’s reading. U2 frontman and activist Bono is out promoting his memoir, Surrender. While he’s busy pushing his own book, the New York Times asked him about others: what’s on his nightstand, and so on. Bono reads pretty broadly; he mentions all sorts of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Not that he reads everything. “I avoid the self-help genre,…