My desert island read
Alice MunrosSelected Stories.
Id never get tired of it.
My literary crush
[Jane Eyre’s] Mr. Rochester, which is pretty disturbing.
Credit: Heather Weston; Henry Holt and Company
He’s really not the best guy.
I cant remember anything about that scene anymore, or really about that book sheep?
but I remember the orange cover and feeling like such a little criminal about it.
My favorite high school story
IloveTom Perrotta’s novelElection.
The movie version is great too, but the book is just perfect.
My favorite literary twist (spoiler alert!)
I just love that.
The last TV series I binged
Fleabag.
One isThe Brothers Karamazov.
I carried it around for a long time in college.
There were boys I was trying to impress.
It was so good, track by track.
The first album I bought myself
Voices, by Hall and Oates.
More pure time-machine happiness.
The song that always makes me feel better
“Lovely Day,” byBill Withers.
Hang on, I need to go listen to it right now!
I read that book literally countless times.
I am still really moved by that story.
Clearly that book made an indelible impression on me.
My ideal quarantine read
Charles Dickens’Bleak House.
I might actually run out of it this worries me.
*Choi completed this Q&A before news ofWithers' deathbroke.
Your ability to sustain that note in “Lovely Day” will always give me goosebumps.
A version of this story appears in the June issue ofEntertainment Weekly, whichyou can order now.
