Harry included several poetry books, such as a beat-up selected collection from Rumi, but Bukowski’s Love is a Dog from Hell seems to have stuck with him. Harry’s “Woman” lyrics “you flower you feast” were adapted from Bukowski’s Old Man Dead in a Room‘s “like a flower like a feast”.

Harry included several poetry books, such as a beat-up selected collection from Rumi, but Bukowski’s Love is a Dog from Hell seems to have stuck with him.

In addition to “Notes on Camp” and these copies of Didion and Kondo, he was previously spotted carrying “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami in London earlier this year.

My book would be... I have two. It would either be Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood or Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape . Which I would suggest you read if you haven’t read it already. It’s really beautiful.

My book would be... I have two. It would either be Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood or Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape.

Styles co-chaired the Met Gala alongside Lady Gaga and Serena Williams on Monday, May 6, and he apparently took his duties very seriously. Even as far back as October, he was reading up on Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” to get familiar with this year’s theme.