so my motive to reading is to imagine myself that kidney york city in the '60s to ride the subway to field "the new yorker" when it was the big time thing or when it was a different place so the motives escape but also the desire to be immediately with a person with a beautiful mind standing in the subway is looking at somebody. >> to be the envelope pushing weirdos? >> with ponds christian andersen and others there is so much pressure on underwriters the way there is pressure to conform or the conventional novel. and to say i didn't know you could do that is extremely helpful. >> i don't know. my reading may have changed because of my situation i am not keeping track of it. >> how you decide what to read the next? >> i have some books on my shelf. and then it might spread to lectures at nyu i 8e tape books a few lectures from each one he has read like when hundred times did he is talking about the book as if he just read it for the first time. so there is a few books i read it is time for 100 years of solitude again. but that is another panel. >> what other books you like to read? >