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    Eileen Myles, the Books in My Life: From Little Women to Angela Carter

    by Eileen Myles Sep 13, 2017 1 minute

    Eileen Myles’ Afterglow is available now from Grove Atlantic.

    What was the first book you fell in love with?
    Little Women: because there was both a female writer, Jo, in it and there was a rich boy, Laurie, I longed to be.

    Name a classic you feel guilty about never having read?
    I have no such guilt.

    What’s the book you reread the most?
    Love by Angela Carter. It’s a novella so it’s short and it’s exquisite, trippy, moody, erotic and dark.

    Is there a book you wish you had written?
    I don’t really wish I had written other people’s books.

    What’s the new book you’re most looking forward to?
    I mean I just heard about a newly translated novel by Halldor Laxness, Wayward Heroes, that came out in 2016 but I didn’t know it existed so it is new to me. I’ve ordered it.

    Originally published in Literary Hub.

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