I'm just curious about what you do like to read.
Do you read fiction, and who do you like?
I read fiction.
I read a lot of reference books, I guess.
I like encyclopedias.
And I like any Oxford collection or Oxford
companion to, you know, Oxford Book of Friendship.
There's an Oxford Book of Death.
I don't know if you knew that.
It's fun to ask in a bookstore do
you have The Oxford Book of Death?
[LAUGHTER]
I don't know.
I'm reading this--
I read some fiction, but I read, like, WG Sebald,
I like quite a bit.
But I go back and I read things like The Anatomy of Melancholy
and I go back and read Coleridge, and kind of poems
to return to.
And the great thing about teaching
is that you're returning to these poems that are
worth reading again and again.
So a lot of my reading is return reading.
I read Lolita once a year.
[LAUGHTER]
It's kind of a ritual I have.
I try, anyway, almost once a year.