Cai asked Mikel Jollett:

In addition to your name, your band [The Airborne Toxic Event] strikes me as literary. If I remember, a long way back, you guys did a pseudo-book club. Read anything good recently?

Mikel Jollett In the rock and roll world, when I tell people my band name, they get this look like you’re this bad punk band from Orange County. They don’t get the reference to 'White Noise.' But so far, in the world of publishers, books and readers, everyone gets the reference. It’s great to have that name in the books’ world. I read 'The Mars Room' by Rachel Kushner, 'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer, and 'Normal People' by Sally Rooney. What’s coming up for me is 'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel. I’m going through a science-fiction phase, so I read 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro, which was amazing. Also coming up for me is 'The Remains of the Day' by Kazuo Ishiguro, because I’ll be in an Ishiguro phase. Then I think I’m going to move on to more Rachel Kushner, 'The Flamethrowers' I hear is amazing, and then 'Going After Cacciato' by Tim O’Brien. He is one of my favorite authors — he wrote a book called 'The Things They Carried' — so I’m very excited about that.

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