Anonymous asked: What kind of books do you like/dislike? Do you like traditional "classics"?
I have a very complicated relationship with ‘classics’, but I hope to read many of them in my lifetime. I find contemporary literature more of a gamble, but also more useful to me as a writer.
As for kinds of books, I think that’s irrelevant. There are many books I feel like I should have liked, but didn’t. I don’t like airport reads or any book given to me as a gift by someone who hasn’t read it first. Other than that, I suppose I’ll try anything.
I feel like I’m failing at this, so draw your own conclusions from the five books I read this month: Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf, The Hours - Michael Cunningham, The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro, Television - Jean-Philippe Toussaint, and my current read - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace.
