I recently wrote a valentine to the director Sofia Coppola.Back in 2001 she told The Week about her six favorite books. Here are two of them:
Music for Torching by A.M. HomesClick here to read about Coppola's other four favorites.
Really hilarious and mean—a marriage in crisis, lots of unhinged characters, everyone’s out to lunch. A couple mired in their suburban life burns their house down to try to make it all go away, to start again—only to end up stuck repairing the building instead.
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan (a compilation of three books).
My brother’s the one who got me into Brautigan’s Gothic western. This story of cowboy hitmen assigned to kill a monster is crazy, weird, and funny.
Coppola's new film, Marie Antoinette, is due this fall--with Kirsten Dunst in the title role. The advance reviews are not promising...but I'll not be deterred.
--Marshal Zeringue
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