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Oliver Sacks is on my list of favourite people, otherwise known as my "nothing not to like about X" list. Here he is, chatting in his effortlessly erudite and avuncular manner about the religious instinct:
dexy's midnight runners: don't stand me down the director's cut
cat power: the greatest
scritti politti: white bread, black beer
bob dylan: planet waves
duke ellington: black, brown and beige
ryan adams: heartbreaker
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis
Steven Sherrill: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
David Remnick: King of the World
Richard Yates: The Easter Parade
bob dylan: chronicles
Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
muriel spark: the prime of miss jean brodie
Paul Berman: Terror and Liberalism