If I could find it, I would buy it.
What I loved about her was that she was so convinced of her rightness in every single moment.
And so instead what I decided was, “Okay, I can’t cover all the classics.
Kevin Wilson.Credit: Leigh Anne Couch
But anything Russian, I’ve never read it.
Dickens, almost nothing.
Shakespeare, almost nothing.
‘Button Soup’ book cover.Walt Disney Productions
I was completely lonely and I didn’t have cable.
It was background noise, and there was something super comforting about it.
And he says, “No, no tie.
‘True Grit’ book cover.The Overlook Press
Leather jacket, cool.”
I say that a lot in my head now: “Leather jacket, cool.”
Like you get to live inside of it.
Emma Thompson and John Travolta in ‘Primary Colors’.Everett Collection
And so I’ve probably seen that movie 90, a hundred times.
I can’t even count.
It was just always on.”
‘The Strange Case of Origami Yoda’ book cover.Harry N. Abrams
A book that always makes me laugh
It’sTrue Grit, again.
Mattie Ross is so deadpan, so straightforward.
I find that really funny, just the disconnect.
‘A Visit From the Goon Squad’ book cover.Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Or Jennifer L. Holm, who wroteTurtle in ParadiseandThe Fourteenth Goldfish, has one calledPenny From Heaven.
I’ll just start weeping as I’m reading, and my kids delight in it.
My eldest told my youngest, “In the secondOrigami Yodabook, Dad is gonna cry.”
Phoebe Bridgers.Kate Green/Getty Images
And I was like, “I probably won’t,” and then I just started sobbing again.
The book I wish I’d written
A Visit From the Goon Squadby Jennifer Egan.
I think, “How did she do it?”
‘The Member of the Wedding’ book cover.Mariner Books
It’s just such a hopeful, beautiful book.
Sometimes when I’m writing, it’s just a single song.
Eventually I stop hearing the lyrics, it’s just the sound that’s really helpful.
‘Relish’ book cover.First Second
I really hate outside noise in the world, so sometimes I need noise right in my ear.
My literary crush
That’s hard, but I think it’s Carson McCullers.
Again, I like picture books about food because it helps with my brain.
‘Nothing to See Here’ book cover.Harper Collins Publishers
[Laughs] So I love looking at Lucy cooking or eating croissants.
The other one I really love that people haven’t seen is the originalThe Member of the Wedding.
It’s an old, old movie, really lovely.
[Ed note:She was.
So I rarely think something is bad, it’s more just like the movie’s not for me.
My youngest son found a pair of bootleg Yeezies and was super jazzed.
So that’s what I’m reading right now,Street Music.
It’s kind of cool to remember that.
She’s just kind of fascinating.
The other one is an advance,Small Worldby Laura Zigman.
Yes, I’ll be the Fire Children author.
[Laughs]
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