by Dan Crowe (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Granta
Published: 07 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 1847088279
ISBN 13: 9781847088277
Book Overview: Don't let death get in the way of a good chat.
Irresistible. [Filled with] erudite wit - Alice Jones, Independent
Entertaining... sometimes viciously funny - Daniel Hahn, Independent on Sunday
Diverting - Tom Gatti, New Statesman
Clever - Peter Conrad, Observer
Enormous fun - Bookseller
Intriguing and clever - The Star
Full of wit and imaginative verve - Sydney Morning HeraldStrangely addictive - NZ Listener