Guest Picks: Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was on the show today, March 18, to talk about his book The Buried Giant. Here are a few of his favorite things.
What have you read or seen over the past year (book, play, film, etc…) that moved or surprised you?
The old 1930s movie Holiday, with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Much more moving than The Philadelphia Story (also directed by George Cukor and starring this same pair), but unjustly neglected now.
What are you listening to right now?
Leonard Cohen’ new album, Peculiar Problems. His finest since I’m Your Man – and this guy is 80!
What’s the last great book you read?
Stephen Mitchell’s new translation of The Iliad.
What’s one thing you’re a fan of that people might not expect?
Westerns. Movies, that is. Especially John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone. Clint Eastwood’s The Outlaw Josey Wales is also one great film.
What’s your favorite comfort food?
Hostess fruit pies. Especially ‘cherry’. (inverted commas are necessary to describe this flavor: but it’s very comforting.)
