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What Kate Atkinson has
on her bedside table
"I've just finished
Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer (Faber) which I enjoyed
hugely. Jane Hamilton, Jane Smiley and Kingsolver form a triumvirate
of wonderful American writers who get better with every book.
I am a big Douglas Coupland fan and am reading my way through books
I've previously missed; at the moment it's Life After God (Scribner).
I'm also halfway through Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal
Consumer Binge - and Why We Must by Kalle Lasn (Quill Press).
The anti-global capitalism movement isn't going to go away simply because
its supporters are dismissed as anarchists by the media. It can only
grow in strength as people wake up to the idiocy around them.
I've just finished Sick Puppy (Pan), another deliriously enjoyable
novel from Carl Hiaasen, and I'm looking forward to Armistead Maupin's
The Night Listener (Bantam); to my shame I've never read him.
And when I feel low I dip into The Watcher's Guide to Buffy the Vampire
Slayer (Pocket). I'm on volume two, which is much better than volume
one; just like Buffy they get better and better.
[Kate Atkinson's novel, Emotionally
Weird, is published in paperback on March 5 by Black Swan.]
- The Sunday Times, 25 February 2001
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