It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. One of The Seattle Times' Michael Upchurch's Favorite Books of the YearĬall Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007.

Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*Ĭelebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a dynamic audiobook, read by Armie HammerĪ New York Times Notable Book of the YearĪ Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearĪ Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the YearĪ New York magazine 'Future Canon' SelectionĪ Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year “After a series of bad imitations and descriptions, he was finally able to figure out what I was talking about: ‘Old Town Road.*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. I wanted to download it on Spotify,” he says. “I called to ask him about this song that I kept hearing at the gym. His liking for Lil Nas X seemingly predated the new track, though, as he adds that his first introduction to the rapper was the record-breaking hit “Old Town Road”, which he discovered via his son.

“If Call Me By Your Name had even the slightest influence on Lil Nas X's music, then that's beyond anything I could have ever imagined or hoped for,” he says. However, fans have celebrated its unapologetic representation of queer sexuality and the wild fantasy world that the rapper inhabits.Īmong those fans, apparently, is André Aciman, the author behind Call Me By Your Name, who calls Lil Nas X’s nod to the bestselling novel in the track’s title “gratifying” and “humbling” in an interview with them. Arriving alongside a video that sees him descend into Hell on a stripper pole and give Satan a lap dance, the track provoked mass outrage among right-wing commentators (probably not helped by the subsequent announcement that he’s sold 666 pairs of “ Satan shoes” filled with human blood). On Friday, Lil Nas X released his latest, long-awaited single, “ Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”.

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