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"   Where are you reading? At Naidre&amp;#039;s in Park Slope, Brooklyn. What&amp;#039;s the book? The Bradshaw Variations. It&amp;#039;s a new book by Rachel Cusk, a British novelist. A friend recommended it. I just started it. [Click here to read ELLE&amp;#039;s extensive interview with Cusk.] Any other books on-the-go? I&amp;#039;ve been sifting through the first volume of Beckett&amp;#039;s letters, but that&amp;#039;s not really an on-the-go book\u2014it&amp;#039;s quite hefty.  Why Beckett? I&amp;#039;ve always been a huge Beckett fan. Then, in college I took a class with a brilliant poet named Keith Waldrop, in which we read all of Beckett. But the letters hadn&amp;#039;t been published yet. I&amp;#039;m a playwright, and I&amp;#039;ve found endless inspiration in him, although I actually prefer his fiction to his plays\u2014the three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, are my favorite. In the letters, everything he writes is brilliant and eloquent, but he always ends them with an apology for taking the recipient&amp;#039;s time with his drivel and expresses some sentiment of deep loathing about his work. It&amp;#039;s reassuring to know he had such complicated feelings towards his own talent. I like your flowered dress, who is it? It&amp;#039;s Steven Alan, from his Liberty print collection. My bag is locally made by a Brooklyn label, ko.des, by designer Kate O&amp;#039;Riley. If you could be reading anywhere in the world, where would it be? At a caf\u00E9 in Paris with a giant caf\u00E9 au lait, of course! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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