The Leonard Lopate Show - Peter Coyote

Q: What have you read or seen over the past year (book, play, film, etc...) that moved or surprised you?

PC: Tony Judt's essays, H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald. For films, Timbuktu, Leviathan, Tangerine, Ida, Birdman and Boyhood.

Q: What are you listening to right now?

PC: Rachael Price – from Lake Street Drive, The Woods Brothers, Fatoumata Diawara, James McMurtry, and always jazz (be-bop) and Dylan.

Q: What’s the last great book you read?

PC: Great? Anna Karenina. Should be great? Light Years by James Salter and A Story as Sharp as a Knife by Robert Bringhurst.

Q: What’s one thing you’re a fan of that people might not expect?

PC: Country music, welding and my 1952 Dodge Power Wagon.

Q: What’s your favorite comfort food?

PC: Bachelor rice and chopped chicken fried up watching Justified or Newroom or Episodes of Veep or House of Lies on TV.

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