If you can’t get to the show, about an imploding ’70s rock band, Adjmi suggested in an email interview that you could read the recently published play script while listening to the cast album. SCOTT HELLER
What’s the last great book you read?
“The Copenhagen Trilogy,” by Tove Ditlevsen. Astonishing.
What’s the best rock memoir you’ve ever read?
Keith Richards’s “Life.” So candid and unsparing but also very humane. And he manages to thread the needle of using familiar rock-star tropes while also subverting them.
The best book about theater you’ve ever read?
“Prick Up Your Ears,” by John Lahr, is the holy grail of playwright biographies — he’s a great writer, and Joe Orton is a fascinating subject. Any playwright who isn’t brought to tears by the last third of Moss Hart’s “Act One” (where he finally figures out how to fix his play) is made of stone. Oh, and I am right now midway through Katie Kitamura’s riveting, eerily spare “Audition.”
What books are on your night stand?
I don’t own a night stand, but I do have a desk across from my bed that is presently overflowing with books I want to get to: “Perfection,” by Vincenzo Latronico; “Honey,” by Victor Lodato; “The Silver Book,” by Olivia Laing; “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle; “Committed,” by Suzanne Scanlon; “Tragedy,” by Terry Eagleton. (Actually, I’ve already read this one but I like to keep it nearby for a project I am working on.)
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