From a New York Times By the Book interview headlined “Charles Frazier Wants You to Wait Before Reading the Classics”:

What books are on your night stand?

“In the Café of Lost Youth,” by Patrick Modiano; “Sleepless Nights,” by Elizabeth Hardwick; “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” by Bob Dylan; “Poems of the Late T’ang,” translated by A.C. Graham.

What’s the last great book you read?