At the Waterstones bookshop in London, Brandon Taylor talks about three books by authors he admires that inspired the writing of his latest novel, The Late Americans, published in June in the U.K. by Jonathan Cape. “The Late Americans is full of strange, difficult relationships and fraught dynamics with respect to sex and class, and to my mind, nobody does that better than Mary Gaitskill,” says Taylor.
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