Stuart Coop

So maps and the way Andrew talks about him getting

going and listening to all this music that he hadn't been listening to, you know, because he hadn't been listening to music, sounds quite fascinating.

So Paul Williams, who sadly is no longer with us, but I'm going to be buying it.

Good to be here.

And you can go and find where there's a whole earth catalogue now, can't you?

We have solved the graffiti.

My heart is racing just thinking about the drugs that are in the book.

First to you, Stuart.

My selection is actually a book that I saw in the window of a bookstore in Los Angeles and I thought, I'm so not going to buy this.

And I kept looking at it and then I bought it and I loved it.

because it sort of reeked of everything I thought was going to be terrible.

I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, the TV series, but it's actually written by Michael Imparelli, who was Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos.

And I thought, oh, a novel.

He's just trading off the success of the TV series.

And I bought it and I just found myself totally engrossed by it.

And it's the story of a guy who's 18 years of age.

He's growing up in the outer boroughs of New York City.

He and his mum moved to Manhattan.

It's 1976 and he ends up living in the same apartment building as Lou Reed.

Oh.