Joe Goldberg, who plays Penn Badgley in the Netflix thriller series youwas a bibliophile—Bagley also read extensively. But unlike Goldberg, he didn't use literature to help him rationalize his murder. Instead, books helped Bagley understand the world and the people in it, especially as he homeschooled himself as an aspiring performer. This is a time in his life that he relives Crashmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Growing Upa witty and endearing new book co-written by Bagley with his podcast co-hosts Sophie Ansari and Nava Kaverin pod crush.
“Reading has always been how I learn the most,” Bagley said on Zoom. The 38-year-old actor had a baby strapped to his chest and rocked it as he described his unconventional upbringing – a far cry from the fictional world he once inhabited. gossip Girlplaying a Brooklynite from an elite high school.
to celebrate crashmoreAs part of the book's launch, Bagley shares here six books that changed his life and helped him grow as a writer.
the eternal thief by Clive Barker
I must have read this book when I was nine or ten. It is unique in my life's literary experience. I don’t know what I had read or liked before this book, but my memory is that it introduced me to mystery. It filled me with a sense of awe and wonder, and it must have also filled me with horror because it was a horror genre book for children, although I don't remember that. My memories of it are just strange and intense. I was blown away.
It's funny because I also remember maybe having a sense of fear, which is not what I enjoy when I read or watch something. I'm really not a person who likes horror and suspense. However, this seems to have done something quite impactful. You know, to this book's credit, it may not sound entirely positive: I think it probably gave me existential dread. I'm not kidding. That’s what horror is for, right? This book does this masterfully.
calvin and hobbes bill waterson
Last night, my five year old picked up the entire collection calvin and hobbes I've been sitting on it for about 15 years and he wants me to read it to him at about 4:30 in the morning. His nights were so crazy now because of the twins. Anyway, I read it this morning, and not without reason, I thought, “this This was actually my first formative literary experience. “marvelous. calvin and hobbes This was definitely my first experience with literary humor, because that's what it is. This is very sensible, very smart. It's very subtle.