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I'm just curious about
what you do like to read.

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Do you read fiction,
and who do you like?

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I read fiction.

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I read a lot of
reference books, I guess.

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I like encyclopedias.

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And I like any Oxford
collection or Oxford

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companion to, you know,
Oxford Book of Friendship.

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There's an Oxford Book of Death.

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I don't know if you knew that.

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It's fun to ask
in a bookstore do

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you have The Oxford
Book of Death?

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[LAUGHTER]

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I don't know.

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I'm reading this--

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I read some fiction, but
I read, like, WG Sebald,

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I like quite a bit.

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But I go back and I read things
like The Anatomy of Melancholy

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and I go back and read
Coleridge, and kind of poems

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to return to.

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And the great thing
about teaching

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is that you're returning
to these poems that are

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worth reading again and again.

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So a lot of my reading
is return reading.

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I read Lolita once a year.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's kind of a ritual I have.

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I try, anyway,
almost once a year.