What's on Claire Danes' Bookshelf?
Complex love affairs. Wit-laden asides. Swirling phantasmagoria. The actress reveals a long-standing passion for contemporary fiction.
Anagrams
By Lorrie MooreMoore is completely unsentimental but able to stir enormous feelings in the reader, or, certainly, in me. Her style is so original: The way this book is structured, the narrative is like an anagram. It begins with Benna, a singer, and her neighbor Gerard. The characters in each succeeding chapter have the same names, but they're different people. In one, she's a schoolteacher and he's a graduate student. I've never read a book where the identity is the same but always changing.
From the Summer 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine