The NY Times has a great piece up called "What are you reading?" which asks bestselling authors like Jonathan Safran Foer, Elizabeth Gilbert and Nora Ephron what books they haven't been able to put down.
It's a fairly predictable list. These writers, being serious and all, read serious books. I so wish one of them would admit to reading a Barbara Taylor Bradford book or one of the Idiot's Guides. Hell, I'd even settle for them reading Umberto Eco's latest. But that's never going to happen. After all, they are "artistes."
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Same goes for musicians. They are usually listening to some pretentious singer/songwriter type that this he/she is the next Bob Dylan/Joni Mitchell. Screw all ya'll. I'll be buying the new Kelly Clarkson CD when it is out.
In college, we had a ongoing tally of how many up-and-coming musicians talked about how Miles Davis inspired them in Rolling Stone and Spin interviews. I think the tally was in the hundreds by graduation. =)
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