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The actress and author on reading pleasures old and new.
Best known for her role as alien-among-us Sally Solomon on the hit 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, Kirsten Johnston brings an outsized personality and brash sense of humor to award-winning work on the stage and screen. Her new memoir, Guts, chronicles her upbringing in an affluent Wisconsin suburb, her early success as an actor in New York's Atlantic Theater Company, and her struggles with addiction. Here she shares three fiction favorites from her shelves.
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By Emma Donoghue
"This novel is kind of indescribable. It is just an exceptional idea and is brilliantly executed. What an imagination author Emma Donoghue has. I dare you not to fall in love with Jack."
By David Rakoff
"A collection of funny short stories written with the perfect combination of curiosity, exhaustion, and self-deprecation. David has a beautiful mind."
By Stephen King
"Look, I had to -- he's been my favorite writer since I was 14, and I've re-read this book a hundred times. I think what I love most about King isn't his macabre leanings; it's how he creates flawed characters you ROOT for. Not only that, but re-reading this book after September 11 gave me a whole new appreciation of its possibility."
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Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.
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