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Lädt ... By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Reviewvon Pamela Paul
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  MickeyMole | Oct 2, 2023 |   ritaer | Aug 23, 2021 | We all want to know what other people are reading. We peer at strangers’ book covers on an airplane and lean over their e-books on the subway. We squint at the iPhone of the person standing in front of us in the elevator. We scan bestseller lists and customer reviews and online social reading sites. Asking someone what she’s read lately is an easy conversational gambit—and the answer is almost bound to be more interesting than the weather. It also serves an actual purpose: we may find out about something we want to read ourselves. When I launched By the Book in The New York Times Book Review, it was an effort to satisfy my own genuine, insatiable desire to know what others—smart people, well-read people, people who are good writers themselves—were reading in their spare time. The idea was to stimulate a conversation over books, but one that took place at a more exalted level than the average watercooler chat. That meant starting big, and for me that meant David Sedaris. Who wouldn’t want to know which books he thinks are funny? Or touching or sad or just plain good? Short questions, often the same, posed to a slew of mostly white male authors? Well, the answers were interesting, mainly when the answers were embarrassing and funny, but it mostly depended on the interviewee. Many writers confess here to unorthodox indulgences (Hilary Mantel adores self-help books) and “failures” of personal taste (neither Richard Ford nor Ian McEwan has much patience for Ulysses). A few years ago, I got on the plane and smiled to see a woman deeply engrossed in one of my books. I settled myself and a few minutes later glanced back. She was in a dead sleep. I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. Pedophilia is a pleasure a person should have guilt about. Not chocolate. —Ira Glass Most celebrities who aren't authors here, e.g. Colin Powell and Arnold Schwarzenegger, aren't really that interesting to me; Powell sounds like a complete stereotype, but others, like Lena Dunham, are interesting. And where the ladies are concerned, the older, the funnier they are. I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he’d never seen The Big Lebowski. Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone. —Malcolm Gladwell Q: When and where do you like to read? A: Reading is still my favorite pastime. It kicks writing’s butt. You learn so much more from reading than you do from writing, although writing pays slightly more. I start reading at four p.m. and continue way into cocktail hour, which begins at four thirty. All in all, this tome should have contained more breadth of people, and not so much filler. It all became quite repetitive after a while, mainly because most people that were included here had the same kind of background (and foreground), I'm guessing. Still, fun at times, and drab others. (  ) pivic | Mar 21, 2020 |  ) EadieB | Mar 16, 2020 | ) motherraccoon | Jan 8, 2020 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them. Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular "By the Book" feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she brings together sixty-five of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges, featuring personalities as varied as David Sedaris, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Lamott, and James Patterson. These questions and answers admit us into the private worlds of these authors, as they reflect on their work habits, reading preferences, inspirations, pet peeves, and recommendations.By the Book contains the full uncut interviews, reflecting a range of experiences and observations that deepens readers' understanding of the literary sensibility and the writing process. It also features dozens of sidebars that reveal the commonalities and conflicts among the participants, underscoring those influences that are truly universal and those that remain matters of individual taste.If you are a devoted reader, By the Book is a way to invite sixty-five of the most interesting guests into your world. It's a book party not to be missed"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorPamela Pauls Buch By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten.  Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
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"If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be?"
"If somebody walked in on you writing one of your books, what would she see? What does your work space look like?"
I really don't care.
And, I want to read about Literature and the writing process, not someone's political ax they feel they have to grind. There were so many cheap shots thrown at Republicans in this book, I felt like I was reading the New York Times. Oh, I guess I was at that. (