What's on Claire Danes' Bookshelf?
Complex love affairs. Wit-laden asides. Swirling phantasmagoria. The actress reveals a long-standing passion for contemporary fiction.
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I have friends who read entire novels in the bath, and I'm not like that—I don't zip through books. But I invest in them completely. And I'm very interested in intimacy—how people relate to each other, what the inherent limitations are of choosing to love someone, and how we are very limited, actually, in our efforts to escape our loneliness. I think there is a strong sense of loneliness in all the stories I've picked. They're full of people who feel a bit abandoned. I don't know why I am drawn to that, but I am.
From the
Summer 2007 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
