WHAT FAMOUS AUTHOR WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE WITH AND HAVE SPARKLING REPORTEE'

Neil Gaiman



hopefully he woud bring his dog, Cabal and his assistant The Fabulous Lorraine

James Baldwin, at a little outdoor cafe in Paris.

I'm going to cheat a bit -- she's published (prolifically) but isn't really a writer -- I'm going to pick the photographer Mary Ellen Mark.

It's too late now --he's dead -- but a beer or two with Robert B. Parker would have
been great.

I don't how famous he is but I'm just finishing Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett. I haven't learned so much from one book in a long time. I like his writing, but I most like his thoughtful connections re behavior and history, through many corners of Spain, 'then' and now. It's a book I'll miss reading. I'm going to have to check any other writing of his (he's journalist at the guardian, or was at the time the book was published).

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Tremlett
That's not enough copies sold for such a terrific book.

Sherman Alexie and/or Edward Abbey.

If I could it would be with Mark Twain, Terry Pratchett and/or Oscar Wilde.

Herbert Philbrick and Raymond Moody, M.D.

Those events already happened.
a few times





David

Alexander McCall Smith . . . although i don't know that i could keep up my end of the "sparkling repartee" . . .

I'd like to sit down with whomever it was that wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf and give them a piece of my mind.

Living author, Gore Vidal. Dead, Kurt Vonnegut.

I was trying to come up with something witty, when I saw this.

This is the one. May I join you?

By all means.

CHEAT!! GRUMBLE!! MUMBLE!! Cheaty~so and so! GRRR....

Margaret Atwood
Neil Gaiman (seconded)

The French-Canadian graphic novel artist Guy Delisle and discuss his travels abroad, especially where he finds himself working in third world dictatorships.

I like to meet Robert Stone while he's still alive.

Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris.

I love to talk art history with the controversial Australian art historian, Robert Hughes.

I already met Joyce Carol Oates at an author reading. I flaked out at the simple art of small talk with her when she signed five books I bought that night. Don't want to relive that social nightmare and end up as a Gothic antihero in a novella or short story of hers.

Phillip Wylie - among the dead.
I discovered his books at age 18. Essay on Morals, Generation of Vipers, When Worlds Collide.

Janis Ian - of the living. She's witty, intelligent, a great singer/songwriter -

I would like to meet Franz Kafka. He could enlighten me about the dark side of existence. I could tell him to like himself a little more and to laugh more often.

Cormac McCarthy
Neal Stephanson
Ray Kurzweil

The great ones are fairly dead.

Sherwood Anderson who wove delightful tales majorly in short shirt sleeves short story form but had a few novels as well. Easy read, like his stuff I think he'd have been nteresting n person.

Same happy feeling comes t to me reading Ernest Hemingway maybe would have scared me in person.


I'd also be needing Fyodor Dostoevsky I would
have to meet him loved.

Then hand me a menu and Joseph Conrad

If a live author is needed give me an Amy Tan and William Kennedy.



Gee can't narrow it to just one. Can I have ten?