What is Alice Walker reading?

Alice Walker is this week’s participant in the New York Times’s By the Book feature, and we’ll warn you right away: She’s not currently into much light reading.

That said, her Q&A is well worth reading, especially for her answers to “Who’s your favorite fictional hero or heroine?” and “What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn’t?” — head here to see what she said.