Dan Crowe
Autor de How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors
Obras de Dan Crowe
Inque Magazine - Issue No. 01 2 copias
The Horseshoe people 1 copia
Entrevistas de ultratumba: la resurrección de la carne: Autores vivientes conversan con sus cadáveres favoritos (2021) 1 copia
INQUE issue 1/10 2021 1 copia
INQUE 2/10 1 copia
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 139
- Popularidad
- #147,351
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 5
- Idiomas
- 1
Some are straight-forward, some are really very clever, like the Samuel Johnson/Boswell interview imagined by David Mitchell, or Rebecca Miller's take on how an interview would go with the Marquis de Sade. Some of them aren't even authors; Douglas Coupland interviews Andy Warhol, who he imagines finds heaven very dull.
I bought this because I saw Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the list and he's just about the only author I'd travel back in time to talk to, if I could. Ian Rankin did the honours, but I was rather disappointed with his efforts, to be frank. Very little came out of the exercise except perhaps a wicked hangover for Rankin if he was lucky, a court-ordered psych eval if he wasn't (fictitiously speaking, of course).
The weirdest by far was Joyce Carol Oates' disturbing and intensive extended grilling of Robert Frost. I think it's fair to say, fictional imaginings or not, she does not like Robert Frost! At the end of it, she is careful to remind readers it's a work of fiction, "though based opon (limited, selected) historical research", and then points the reader in the direction of Meyer's biography of Frost. I'm betting there's a story to tell there somewhere.
It's an amusing collection of what-ifs, some of which, like with all such things, are better than others.… (más)