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"Salman Rushdie, Debra Messing, and Others Discuss What's on Their Bookshelves\nWhat's on the bookshelves of Jessica Chastain, Salman Rushdie, Debra Messing, Barbara Walters, David Cronenberg, and more\n\"My books? Are you asking about my accountant?\" Jessica Chastain quipped at the premiere of her movie Lawless. Eventually the Juilliard-trained actress stopped playing coy. \"I have a huge library of plays by Chekhov, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and\u00A0Shaw.\u00A0They're alphabetized by author. And on the shelves with them are very dusty little knickknacks.\"\nThe million-pound bounty may have been removed from Salman Rushdie's head, but the author was moving at a good clip before we caught up with him on his way into the theater for Lawless. \"You have no idea how many books I have,\" he said. \"I have a fiction and a nonfiction section, and I alphabetize. I keep them alphabetical by the first letter but not in any order within that individual letter. That would be obsessive.\"\n\"In a bookshelf, with the spines out,\" answered the actress Chlo\u00EB Sevigny. \"I keep them in sections: American, French, photography, rock and roll.\u00A0And they are not color-coordinated either.\"\u00A0A recent addition:\u00A0\"Rita Ackermann by Rita Ackermann.\"\nNot all bookshelves, by the way, are nondescript. AD ran into tastemaker Ivan Bart, senior VP and managing director of IMG Models, at the Top of the Standard in the Meatpacking District.\u00A0\"My partner found our Snead bookshelf online, and we drove all the way to New Hampshire to get it.\u00A0This is the kind of thing that is in the Vatican and the Library of Congress. We redid it, and it's one of our most prized possessions.\"\n\nBart and model Elaine Irwin at the 9th Annual Style Awards.\n\"My bed is boxed,\" answered Jordin Sparks at the Cinema Society after-party at the Soho Grand for the New York debut of her film Sparkle.\u00A0(The film also stars the late pop chanteuse Whitney Houston.)\u00A0\"And the headboard is made of bookshelves.\"\n\"My books are totally chaotic,\" replied director David Cronenberg, shown with actor Robert Pattinson, at the premiere of his film Cosmopolis, which was based on a Don DeLillo novel. \"I have a big collection. But now I find that I enjoy reading on a Kindle, so I can keep it a bit more organized.\"\nAt the premiere of his movie Premium Rush, Joseph Gordon-Levitt confessed an ongoing attraction to books. \"I like reading on a digital device also, but there is nothing like a book.\u00A0There is a good quote from John Waters, \u2018If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't f--k 'em.'\"\nAt the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, John Waters appeared to be mentally leafing through his collection back home in Baltimore. \"I have an incredible library,\" said the man known for his quirky taste. A favorite book on the shelves? \"Teens and the Death Penalty,\" he said. \"It has a great cover.\"\nEmma Roberts, wearing Yves Saint Laurent at the YSL\u2013sponsored debut of the Metropolitan Opera's Manon, noted that she has a special place in her heart for her cocktail table book on Chanel. \"I have a lot of books in my house,\" said the actress-ingenue.\u00A0\"Just books everywhere.\"\nBarbara Walters, seen here with Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer, told AD that she inherited a Grolier-worthy collection from her father, Lou Walters, who owned the celebrated 1940s nightclub called The Latin Quarter.\u00A0\"I'm very fortunate, because my father collected first editions,\" she said. \"And I have them, and they're a great joy.\u00A0The fact that my father was a man who owned nightclubs and collected first editions\u2014to me, that's very special.\"\n\"I'm a nerd,\" model Carolyn Murphy confessed at a Gucci-sponsored gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art benefitting the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.\u00A0\"I collect first-edition books,\" she said. \"The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayy\u00E1m.\u00A0I have all of John Steinbeck, Ana\u00EFs Nin, Henry Miller, some of them signed. I have a few books by Edmund Dulac [the famed illustrator], which are amazing.\"\n\nMurphy at the New York City Ballet 2012 Spring Gala.\nWe caught up with actress Mandy Moore in the front row at the Lela Rose show during fashion week at Lincoln Center.\u00A0\"We have a bookshelf and coffee table books and stuff,\" she said. \"We have some photography books. My husband [Ryan Adams] is really into arcade games, so we have a lot of old arcade pinball books right now.\"\u00A0\n\nMoore at a spring 2013 fashion show.\nActress Lauren Anne Miller spoke to AD at the New York debut of her film For\u00A0a Good Time,\u00A0Call . . .which also stars her husband, Seth Rogen. \"They're neatly stacked on bookshelves all over our house,\" Miller noted. \"The fun books get displayed in public; the dumb chick lit in my bedroom.\"\n\"Books?\" asked Justin Long, seen with his For\u00A0a Good Time,\u00A0Call . . . costars Lauren Anne Miller (left) and Ari Graynor. \"Oh, are those like DVDs?\" he joked. \"I'm reading a really heady, pretentious one now, Manufacturing Consent. It's a Noam Chomsky number. Terrifying.\"\nElisabeth Moss explained that she recently moved. \"At the moment, they're sitting on an ottoman with a tall stack of Architectural Digest magazines\u2014and I'm not just saying that! I have a lot of photography and art books right now, and I'm also a big fan of In the Garden of Beasts.\"\n\"I have a book fetish,\" Debra Messing answered at the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 at Jazz at Lincoln Center. \"I love books; I collect books,\" she said. \"I'm pretty fastidious about having them on bookshelves.\u00A0I like to have them stacked in order of height.\u00A0And then I make towers on the ends of the shelves and fit\u00A0picture frames and vases in between. I use the books for structure.\"\nActress Anna Kendrick's (Up In the Air) approach to books isn't exactly Dewey Decimal. \"I try to make them look nice,\" she said at the Samsung launch. \"But I can't bring myself to have just one bookcase of books. I keep them scattered around with no rhyme or reason.\"\nAD100 designer Jamie Drake discussed the \"super-high-end library\" he created at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House this year. \"In a day when people say books are going away,\" he said, \"I think there will always be books.\u00A0And I've been slightly inspired by the rec rooms of the '50s and '60s with their paneled walls.\"\nAllison Williams, one of the young stars of the HBO hit series, \"Girls,\" was wearing Peter Som in the front row at the designer's fashion show. \"I keep my books in no particular order,\" she noted. \"But with the bindings level. A wall of shelves\u2014repurposed-wood shelves. I reread The Great Gatsby recently, and I loved Diane Keaton's autobiography. It's amazing.\"\nIn heels at the Taste of Tennis event, it was obvious that the statuesque tennis star, Daniela Hantouchov\u00E1, could reach any top shelf without a ladder. \"I keep them in a library with no order to it,\" she said. \"And there are absolutely zero tennis books.\"\nDoubles-champs and twins, Mike and Bob Bryan, were sporting twin gold medals from the London Olympics (just before they went on to win their record 12th Grand Slam at the U.S. Open). \"They're all on the iPad,\" said Bob Bryan. \"I went to Stanford,\" added Mike Bryan. \"But I haven't read too many books since. All ten are on my dresser in my bedroom.\"\nNewlywed literary agent Felicity Blunt was sitting in the front row at the Nanette Lepore show in the Stage venue at New York fashion week with her husband, actor Stanley Tucci. (Her sister Emily starred with Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada.) \"Since I'm a literary agent, books are everywhere,\" Felicity Blunt told AD. \"Stanley has this amazing architectural-type stacking design for books. I have them by my bed and on my iPad and in my handbag.\" So what title does she suggest? \"City of Women by David R. Gillham. I read it recently, and it was amazing\u2014a beautiful book.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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