“I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.”

American actor and entertainment host

Rob Lowe is an American actor and entertainment host. He first gained wide attention in the early 1980s, when television roles helped make him a teen idol and a member of the Brat Pack. His screen career became closely associated with a series of leading roles in films such as The Outsiders, Class, The Hotel New Hampshire, Oxford Blues, St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night..., Youngblood, Masquerade, and Bad Influence. In the 1990s, his career shifted, and he appeared mainly in direct-to-video and television films as a lead, while also taking supporting parts in studio comedies including Wayne's World, Tommy Boy, and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. His work is best known through that mix of youthful stardom and later character roles.