Fanfair

NIGHT-TABLE READING

April 2012
Fanfair
NIGHT-TABLE READING
April 2012

NIGHT-TABLE READING

MAMIE GUMMER

ACTRESS

SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, BY GARY SHTEYNGART

"It's so funny and so alarming. It's a satirical foretelling of where this world is headed."

SETH MEYERS

ACTOR

ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, BY BETHANY McLEAN AND JOE NOCERA

"I can't stop reading books about the financial crisis.

It's disaster porn for me.

I love being reminded that, no matter how smart computers get, humans will still be humans, forever capable of fucking up everything."

SERENA LINLEY

CO-FOUNDER, SERENA LINLEY PROVENCE

NICOLE DE VESIAN-GARDENS: MODERN DESIGN IN PROVENCE, BY LOUISA JONES

"I take great inspiration from this wonderful designer, both for my own garden in France and for the garden at the back of my shop on Walton Street in Chelsea."

JULIAN FELLOWES

CREATOR, "DOWNTON ABBEY

THE SECRET HISTORY BY DONNA TARTT

"It tells a curiously compelling story about a group of students at a New England college who are gradually, and finely, corrupted by their charismatic professor.

It is dark, complicated, haunting, beautifully written, and I keep carrying it around in the hope that I can read a bit during the day."

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