Sun’s out, fun’s out!
Oh, I could not get enough of it."
Huge Nick Hornby fan.
Credit: Deborah Feingold
And I loved, and I meanloved,the Zoe Kravitz adaptation[ofFidelity].
I could not believeit didn’t get picked up[for a second season].
I was so sad.
Riverhead Books
I thought it was fantastic."
She trusted me to make my own decisions.
Yeah, I don’t think being a fan ofNewsiesis a good entry point for that.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
So I am an imposter."
I’ve read it probably more than any other book.
I open up parts of it and I just…
Penguin Random House
It’s obviously a very childlike view of the world, but I find it really moving.
I have another one I read over and over for a different reason, which isThe Color Purple.
I’m not saying anything anyone doesn’t know, but it’s spectacular on a number of levels.
The cover of ‘Crying in H Mart’.Knopf
These are just [written as] letters, and yet she’s rendered a whole complex world here.
Just in terms of craft, I think it’s spectacular."
The book that always makes me laugh
“Samantha Irby has just never written anything that is not hysterical.
Hogarth
And what I appreciate is, I think being funny in a book is harder than any other format.
And yet you know that Sam Irby is going to bring you there every time.
I mean,Wow, No Thank Youis the perfect title.”
Knopf
The last book to make me cry
“Crying in H Martby Michelle Zauner.
I just sat there and cried as I finished it.
My literary crush
“I’m going to do this one as a character, which is Jay Gatsby.
And I’m defining ‘crush’ as you could’t rationalize it.
You’re just drawn.
Jay Gatsby, it’s not a like or dislike thing.
It’s just I am drawn to him and that sense of naivete and corruption at the same time.
The screen adaptation of a novel that I love
“Normal People.
I thought the book was absolutely fantastic.
And watchingthat adaptation, the casting, it consumed me the same way.
So in terms of in tandem with each other, I think they’re both just A++.
And alsoWhen No One is Watchingby Alyssa Cole.
I had a friend of mine who was like, ‘You have to read this.
It’s my favorite book of the year.’
And I trust her a lot.
But it is so nice to just hold that tiny little book.
It’s the best feeling.
I want all books in mass market paperback now.”
I am very much hoping that I’m just getting started.”
