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"  What brings you to St. Mark&amp;#039;s Bookshop? I&amp;#039;m in Suzan-Lori Parks&amp;#039; new play The Book of Grace at The Public. I&amp;#039;m between shows right now, and I often like to walk over to St. Marks to browse the books. And I&amp;#039;m traveling soon, so I need to find some books for the flight. Where are you traveling? I&amp;#039;m flying to Austin to do the Coen brothers&amp;#039; new movie, True Grit. I have a toddler, and I love to read, so flying is a treat because it means uninterrupted time to read. What are you buying for the flight? Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet. I haven&amp;#039;t read him in a while, and I was just in the mood for...him. He has such a unique voice in the world, and he takes what most people see as discarded, hideous and perverse and makes it something poetic and beautiful. What drew you to him the first time around? It was because I saw a theater piece of &amp;quot;Prison of Love&amp;quot; that Mabou Mines did\u2014JoAnne Akalaitis directed it and Philip Glass did the music. I saw this piece, and it blew me away, so I started voraciously reading Genet. Are there any other books you keep going back to? I re-read Middlemarch every five years just because it&amp;#039;s a pleasure. And I read a lot of contemporary American poetry, like Laurie Sheck, Mark Strand and Jack Gilbert, who&amp;#039;s probably my favorite poet right now. Do you ever read books to inspire you for a role? Oh sure. When I played Regan in King Lear, I read Patty Hearst&amp;#039;s biography and the biography of Albert Speer, Hitler&amp;#039;s architect. For some reason, those two greatly influenced what I made\u2014so it&amp;#039;s hard to explain my process! Photo: Angela Bliumis "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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