Having only recently discovered what Sophie’s choice was in the classic 1982 tear-jerker of the same name – oh, Meryl! And I thought choosing between the different varieties of festive hot chocolates in Costa was tough – I decide to give Arlo Parks a (less traumatic) dilemma of her own to wrestle with.
The young poet and singer can only read one book or poem ever again: what will it be? “No!” she playfully protests. “That is so hard… OK, this is a curveball, but I think it would be Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch, because it has all these nuggets of stuff about creativity and consciousness and meditation. There are maybe a hundred or so mini-chapters… it’s kind of the gift that would never stop giving.”