Plus, Benjamin Myers talks Mötley Crüe, Roald Dahl and the best LA novel.
Benjamin Myers is the author of “The Perfect Golden Circle,” out May 17 from Melville House. in a small artistic West Yorkshire town in England. An author and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Mojo and Le Monde, Myers’ books include “The Offing,” “Pig Iron” and “The Gallows Pole,” the latter of which is being adapted for TV.
There’s a writer called J.L. Carr, who wrote a novel called “A Month in the Country,” which came out in 1980. It’s set in the aftermath of the First World War. It’s really short, poignant, simple – it’s a novella, really – about one man who renovates a church in a little village in England. It’s beautiful. It’s sort of very melancholic. It was made into a film in the ‘80s, starring Colin Firth. I always mention that book because I think it’s not widely read.
Who else should I mention? I really like James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room.” I don’t think it’s his most famous work, but it’s just a beautiful novel. John Fante, “Ask the Dust.” Probably the best L.A. novel. I think people know who John Fante is. Certainly in Britain in the ‘90s and naughties, he had quite a sort of revival here, but I feel like he’s kind of faded from view a little bit recently.
I had a really good English teacher at school. Who only taught me for a year or two when I was like 12, called Mr. Leake, Nick Leake. Do you know what a safari suit is? He wore safari suits and was quite well-spoken. The school I went to, it wasn’t terrible, but it was quite rough. So he stood out amongst the teachers and the pupils because he seemed a lot more academic and maybe should have been teaching at universities.
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