Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons - Hardcover

Dan Crowe

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9781847088277: Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847088279 ISBN 13: 9781847088277

Publisher: Granta, 2013

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These ingenious interviews will amuse, provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to the wildly silly, Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to sit down with their heroes and flex their cerebral muscles, or simply indulge in some bookish gossip with a deceased icon. Pitch-perfect mimesis meets razor sharp literary criticism in the book that refuses to let dead writers lie.

The contributors:

Rick Moody on Jimi Hendrix, Cynthia Ozick on Henry James, Douglas Coupland on Andy Warhol, Sam Leith on John Berryman, Geoff Dyer on Friedrich Nietzsche, A. M. Homes on Richard Nixon, David Mitchell on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, John Burnside on Rachel Carson, ZZ Packer on Monsieur de Saint-George, Michel Faber on Marcel Duchamp, Rebecca Miller on the Marquis de Sade, Ian Rankin on Arthur Conan Doyle and Joyce Carol Oates on Robert Frost.

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Review:

'Crowe's game is something novelists are adept at playing: it's their business to invade the brains of strangers, eavesdrop on their thoughts and ventriloquistically dictate the words they utter. In the longest and most brilliantly elaborate interview, Joyce Carol Oates invents a surrogate who goes to meet the octogenarian poet Robert Frost.' --Observer

'More literary types will enjoy Dead Interviews in which writers meet 'dead icons'. Some will make you see how skilful properly clued up interviewers are, while others will make you hoot.' --'Best gift books', Daily Telegraph

'The bold, high-voltage vulgarity of some nicely offsets more quietly witty, clever others. The voices are often entertaining pastiche, and sometimes viciously funny. The collection includes with an extended story of thrilling detail by Joyce Carol Oates, charting a brilliantly engineered ramping up of hostilities as a fictional interviewer meets Robert Frost and finds him a crude, proud bully.' --Independent on Sunday

The literary magazine Zembla lives on in this diverting collection of "dead interviews". --New Statesman

'The bold, high-voltage vulgarity of some nicely offsets more quietly witty, clever others. The voices are often entertaining pastiche, and sometimes viciously funny. The collection includes with an extended story of thrilling detail by Joyce Carol Oates, charting a brilliantly engineered ramping up of hostilities as a fictional interviewer meets Robert Frost and finds him a crude, proud bully.' --Independent on Sunday

'Intriguing and clever.' --John Freeman

'The bold, high-voltage vulgarity of some nicely offsets more quietly witty, clever others. The voices are often entertaining pastiche, and sometimes viciously funny. The collection includes with an extended story of thrilling detail by Joyce Carol Oates, charting a brilliantly engineered ramping up of hostilities as a fictional interviewer meets Robert Frost and finds him a crude, proud bully.' --Independent on Sunday

About the Author:

DAN CROWE is the co-founder and co-publisher of Port, an alternative men's magazine. He has previously edited Writers on the Edge: Great Contemporary Authors on the Front Line of Crisis (Rizzoli, 2010).

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