OWEN WILSON, the movie star, loves to read. His mind is filled with quotes from favourite books, which he is able to recall at a moment’s notice. In this rare interview he invites The Happy Reader to get to know him while perusing the classic and not-so-classic titles stacked up around his home.
Our Book of the Season for summer is an eternal bestseller by the Stoic philosopher, imperial life coach and Roman emperor MARCUS AURELIUS. The book is his secret diary that everyone is reading, the MEDITATIONS. With contributions from writers including Geoff Dyer and Deborah Levy and the photographer Martin Parr, the second half of the magazine tells you all you may ever need to know about nature, exercise, philosophy and love.
BUY NOWOn the cover, film star OWEN WILSON, photographed at home and in the garden by Milan Zrnic
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Snippets
The interview: OWEN WILSON by Amanda Fortini – ‘I’m going to take this, this and this and I’m going to stack ’em up, and I’m going to read a little bit.’
Wilson’s re-reading list
The Book of the Season is MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius, handwritten in Koine Greek in the second century AD and first appearing in print in 1559
Prologues: Self-help for all by Seb Emina
Gymnasium: The Stoic work-out by Massimo Pigliucci – Get some exercise
Roma: Memory is a souvenir by Geoff Dyer – Reading to a statue
Tourisms
Insectum: The truth about bees by Harriet Alida Lye – Actually, hives are not dictatorships
Universal Nature
Helter-skelter by Deborah Levy – Sex, fish and palmistry
Momentum: Leave me alone by Sadie Stein – Getting up is dying out
Twelve self-help gurus in need of help
Alumnus: At the movies by Lex Paulson – The time Gladiator changed my life
Letters
The book of hibernation
Directory
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This July, the Happy Reader Book Club gathered in Amsterdam, in honour of The Black Tulip, our Book of the Season for summer 2018.
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