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Dead interviews : living writers meet dead icons / edited by Dan Crowe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Granta, 2013Description: 202 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781847088277
  • 1847088279
Subject(s):
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: interviews Jimi Hendrix / Rick Moody -- interviews Henry James / Cynthia Ozick -- interviews Andy Warhol / Douglas Coupland -- interviews John Berryman / Sam Leith -- interviews Friedrich Nietzsche / Geoff Dyer -- creates Tom, who interviews Richard Nixon / A. M. Homes -- interviews Samuel Johnson and James Boswell / David Mitchell -- interviews Rachel Carson / John Burnside -- interviews Monsieur de Saint-George / ZZ Packer -- interviews Marcel Duchamp / Michel Faber -- interviews the Marquis de Sade / Rebecca Miller -- interviews Arthur Conan Doyle / Ian Rankin -- creates Evangeline Fife, who interviews Robert Frost `Lovely, Dark, Deep' / Joyce Carol Oates.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 828 D278 Available 33111008501658
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Don't let death get in the way of a good chat.

Machine generated contents note: interviews Jimi Hendrix / Rick Moody -- interviews Henry James / Cynthia Ozick -- interviews Andy Warhol / Douglas Coupland -- interviews John Berryman / Sam Leith -- interviews Friedrich Nietzsche / Geoff Dyer -- creates Tom, who interviews Richard Nixon / A. M. Homes -- interviews Samuel Johnson and James Boswell / David Mitchell -- interviews Rachel Carson / John Burnside -- interviews Monsieur de Saint-George / ZZ Packer -- interviews Marcel Duchamp / Michel Faber -- interviews the Marquis de Sade / Rebecca Miller -- interviews Arthur Conan Doyle / Ian Rankin -- creates Evangeline Fife, who interviews Robert Frost `Lovely, Dark, Deep' / Joyce Carol Oates.

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.

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