Before Tom Perrotta's novel "Election" was even published, director Alexander Payne, who'd read a galley of it, was adapting it into a Matthew Broderick movie. Visiting the set — a high-school gym papered with posters — was magical, Perrotta tells The Post: "How did this thing inside my head become real?"
Fast-forward to HBO's "The Leftovers": Based on Perrotta's 2011 novel about a Rapture-like disappearance, it has its finale tonight and a second season's on the way. Stretching a book into a 10-hour series, Perrotta says, is like being on a cruise: "We stop at these islands, which are episodes from the book, but otherwise we're out in the open sea."
He'll speak at the NYPL's "Books at Noon" series Sept. 17.
Meanwhile, here's what's in his library.
Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger
Berger, one of our greatest novelists, died this summer, and not enough people are aware of his amazing work. This is one of his masterpieces . . . a rollicking epic about the American West, rivaling "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in its insight into the American character and the irreverent, deeply revealing light it shines on our history.
Dear Committee Members
by Julie Schumacher
If you like academic satires, you'll love this novel, which is written as a series of recommendation letters by a cranky, long-suffering English professor. Like Richard Russo's "Straight Man," this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities. It's very funny and also moving.
Before the Storm
by Rick Perlstein
I'm just catching up with Perlstein's sprawling history of the modern conservative movement in America. This is the first in the series, an absorbing account of Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign . . . Anyone who thinks the Tea Party came out of nowhere should read the work of this gifted historian.
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
Like "Little Big Man," this is a historical novel with an unlikely protagonist: an escaped slave — a young boy — who disguises himself as a girl and runs off with John Brown's guerrilla army. The narrator's voice is funny, down to earth and irrepressibly honest, and his human-sized portraits of Brown and others let us see these figures in a new light.
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