This week we are ensconced in the lush, historic offices of Faber and Faber (featuring framed, insulting TS Eliot memos) to talk to the comedian, director and author Richard Ayoade! Richard is globally recognised due to his roles in iconic shows such as The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he's directed two films (Submarine and The Double) and published three books, all on the theme of film - with his latest being a deep dive into one particular rom-com entitled Ayoade on Top. We talked to him about rom-coms and their deeper resonance on life, good plane reading, PG Wodehouse and the emotional impact of Happy Eaters.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Richard Ayoade - Ayoade on Top
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
John Steinbeck - Red Pony
John Steinbeck - The Pearl
John Steinbeck -Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck -East of Eden
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
William Leith - Hunger Years
Joe Dunthorne - Submarine
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Poor Folk
Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
PG Wodehouse - Ukridge
PG Wodehouse - The Jeeves Omnibus
PG Wodehouse - The World of Blandings
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Charles Webb - The Graduate
John Updike - Rabbit Run
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Iris Murdoch - Under the Net
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
Wallace Shawn - Night Thoughts
Wallace Shawn - Essays
Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
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