On your nightstand now:
The Journals of John Cheever, Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg and Leonard Michaels's The Collected Stories
Favorite book when you were a child:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Top five authors:
John Cheever, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Alice Munro, William Trevor
Book you've "faked" reading:
Ulysses by James Joyce
Books you are an "evangelist" for:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and Preston Falls by David Gates
Book you've bought for the cover:
Theft by Peter Carey
Book that changed your life:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Favorite line from a book:
The opening line of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad,
Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when
his father took him to discover ice."
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Books you admire that not enough people know about:
Inspired Sleep by Robert Cohen and Snakebite Sonnet by Max Phillips
Book you fell in love to:
Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell