Article: Books that made a difference to Viggo Mortensen: poems, novels, essays, histories. The actor (and writer, and publisher) goes to press with his favorite titles.(reading room)

IN 2002 I STARTED A SMALL PUBLISHing company called Perceval Press, with the help of Pilar Perez, a curator I'd previously worked with at the Santa Monica, California, gallery Track 16. The company's name came from the Arthurian legend, in which Perceval and other knights arrive at the edge of a forest and decide each must make his own path through it. This approach, metaphorically speaking, seems to me a creative way to look at life. Before starting the business, Pilar and I asked author and publisher Dave Eggers if he had any advice for us. What we took from him--though his company, McSweeney's, is much bigger than ours--was the idea of being very hands-on and ...

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