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Stephen Colbert is a comedian and host of The Late Show, and one of the most openly bookish people in late night. Peter Jackson once called him the biggest Tolkien geek he had ever met, and Colbert has read Flannery O'Connor aloud for public radio. Picks below come from his interviews.
“Right now, I'm about to bestow on you the highest prize any book could possibly get, because I'm excited to announce that Vigil will be the Late Show book club's February pick. It comes with a mug, which I don't think the Booker Prize comes with.” source
“Do you start writing and a ghost just wafts into the room?” source
“There's still time to get your summer reading in. The Late Show Book Club is excited to announce its August pick: 'A Marriage at Sea' by Sophie Elmhirst.” source
“A beautiful novel about six astronauts on the International Space Station going about their daily tasks and pondering the meaning of life. It won the Booker Prize, and it won the even more prestigious prize of being my first book club pick.” source
“When I spent my entire teenage years reading all of Tolkien, not just 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings,'” source
“When I spent my entire teenage years reading all of Tolkien, not just 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings,'” source
“When I spent my entire teenage years reading all of Tolkien, not just 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings,'” source
“Colbert, like O'Connor, is both a Southerner and a Catholic, and was thought to feel a connection to Flannery O'Connor's work; asked to take part, he said yes right away and asked to read 'The Enduring Chill.'” source
“I suspect this photo would have annoyed J.D. Salinger. Here I am, the stereotypical liberal arts fanboy, going weak over something he typed. But I can't help myself. When I first read Salinger, I thought he wrote the Glass family stories just for me.” source
