On the off chance you take your read­ing cues from rock stars, here’s some­thing from an inter­view with Radio­head at the Observer Music Monthly:

Thom’s read­ing Q by mys­te­ri­ous Ital­ian anar­chist group Luther Blis­set. I tried to read that once, I tell him.

‘Oh it’s fuck­ing ace! But my missus, that’s her spe­cial­ist field, so she’s been explain­ing it to me all the way through. Medieval church car­nage. It’s mental. I want to get it made into a film. That’s my next mission.’

Using the In Rain­bows profits?

‘Mmm-mm,’ says Thom Yorke, shak­ing his head. ‘I doubt it. That would cover basi­cally the catering.’

Not to spoil the mys­tery, but “the mys­te­ri­ous Ital­ian anar­chist group” who wrote Q com­prised four of the five mem­bers of the group cur­rently known as Wu Ming, the authors of 54, Man­i­tu­ana, and the two sto­ries I trans­lated for Chicago Review 52:2/3/4.

The Radiohead/Wu Ming con­nec­tion is actu­ally apt, since Wu Ming makes all their work avail­able as free downloads.

For the record, here’s what the rest of Radio­head is reading:

Colin is cur­rently read­ing Piers Brendon’s new The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, Jonny’s re-​reading Gibbon’s The His­tory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ed’s just fin­ished Man’s Search For Mean­ing by Victor Frankel (’Brilliant. He’s an Auschwitz survivor’), Phil’s read­ing Mark Haddon’s A Spot of Bother.