David Adjmi Stereophonic's Reading List

"Astonishing."

"So candid and unsparing but also very humane. And he manages to thread the needle of using familiar rock-star tropes while also subverting them."

"the holy grail of playwright biographies — he's a great writer, and Joe Orton is a fascinating subject."

"Any playwright who isn't brought to tears by the last third of Moss Hart's Act One (where he finally figures out how to fix his play) is made of stone."

"I am right now midway through Katie Kitamura's riveting, eerily spare Audition."

"During Covid I finally sat down to read both Middlemarch and War and Peace and it was such a luxury."

"During Covid I finally sat down to read both Middlemarch and War and Peace and it was such a luxury."

"Groundbreaking when it was written and still immensely pleasurable if you dig that sort of thing (I do)."

"I reference The Metamorphosis in therapy more than anything."