From a New York Times By the Book interview headlined “Teddy Wayne Mises the Purity of His Adolescent Reading”:

What books are on your night stand?

Alejandro Zambra’s “Chilean Poet.” The rest of my night stand is currently taken up with children’s books, including the entirety of Graham Oakley’s “The Church Mice” series, a witty, mostly out-of-print 1970s British collection I loved when I was young, and Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel’s “Rotten Ralph” books, about a house cat whose snarky misbehavior is a refreshing tonal shift from most books for kids.