Another Perennial author has generously offered a view into their private book world. This time Robert Westfield, author of Suspension, answers the hard-hitting 10 questions:
1. One book that changed your life?
Most recently, The House of Mirth.
2. One book you have read more than once?
Catch 22 is probably the book I’ve read the most often…an annual read in my twenties.
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
That’s easy because it’s such a fat book—The Collected Works of Shakespeare. Obvious, I’m sorry, but at least I didn’t write The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Surviving on a Desert Island.
4. One book that made you laugh?
Many have made me laugh, but A Confederacy of Dunces sent me flying off a treadmill into a wall.
5. One book that made you cry?
Many have made me cry, but none like Les Miserables which had me weeping for over a hundred page—it has to be the longest death scene in literature. And I love that Jean Valjean!
6. One book you wish had been written?
I wish my next one were written.
7. One book you wish had never been written?
The Complete Idiot Guide series…especially the most ridiculous—and I’m not making this up—“The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enhancing Your Self Esteem.” Um, step one: Don’t buy this book.
8. One book you are currently reading?
Fiction: Kafka on the Shore
Non-fiction: Fundamentalism and American Culture
NYC: When Harlem Was in Vogue
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
After the invigorating experience that is Middlemarch, I’ve been meaning to read everything else by George Eliot.
10. Now tag five people.
Okay.
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