What's Peter Buck reading?

According to Sunday's Atlanta Journal Constitution, REM's guitarist was going through Philip Roth's Zuckerman series of novels, and is now reading Remake/Remodel: Becoming Roxy Music, a study of the English art school scene of the 1960s and how it affected the art-rock movement of the 1970s.

REM wrapped up their US tour last Saturday in Atlanta (look for a belated review of that show in a couple of days) and now head to Europe for three months. Based on some recent interviews, they may be back in the States in October and November (they're definitely playing the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans October 24-26, alongside Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails) and touring South America in early 2009.

Here's REM's new single, "Hollow Man."