Summary
Have you ever wondered about the creative process of your favourite authors? Who loves money more than life? Which old lady wears fur jackets? Who needs to punch a boxing ball before work? 'How I Write' offers unpublished and unseen material illuminating the secret lives of authors.
Contents
A farewell to arms / Vendela VidaA squeaky office chair / Jonathan Franzen
Post-it notes / Will Self
The Baths of Diocletian / Alan Hollinghurst
Stövchen / Benjamin Markovits
Jarry's spiral / Tom Robbins
A Maglite / Janine Di Giovanni
A cork wall / Eric Chase Anderson
Kiehl's / JT Le Roy
A large desk / Alain de Botton
Ganesha / Luis J. Rodriguez
A picture from Prague / Gina Ochsner
Chocolate / Douglas Coupland
A blindfolded rhino / Melissa Bank
Simon Wiesenthal and the Simpsons / David Baddiel
Clippity / Lionel Shriver
Through my window / Geoff Dyer
Nicotine / Anthony Bourdain
Unknown keys / Siri Hustvedt
Notebooks thrown across rooms / A.L. Kennedy
Portland Meadows Racetrack / Willy Vlautin
Calace / Louisa Young
People I don't know / Isabel Young
Yerba Maté / James Flint
Oblique strategies / Rick Moody
Hot water / Jane Smiley
Oxford Bar / Ian Rankin
A cabinet of curiosities / A.S. Byatt
Laurence Stern / Adam Thirlwell
Speedball / Natasha Mostert
The pens / Hanif Kureishi
Names / Jonathan Lethem
Driving / David Guterson
Alphabets / Marie Darrieussecq
A body plummeting / Nicole Krauss
In the wee small hours / Neil LaBute
The monkey's jaw / Iain Sinclair
The rituals of tea / Tash Aw
A cypress cone / William Fiennes
The lights of my writing life / Tony D'Souza
.005 / Claire Messud
My grandmother the dancer / Jake Arnott
Walking / Matt Thorne
Krautrock / Michel Faber
Portrait / Joyce Carol Oates
An axe in my hand / Jay McInerney
Money / Tibor Fischer
Cocktails from water and ice / Nick Laird
Nat Love / ZZ Packer
"This childish task" / Javier Marías
Akhenaten / Ahdaf Soueif
Terry's fist / Ronan Bennett
The dogs / Arthur Bradford
Tempus omnia revelat / Bruce Robinson
Earplugs / Nicholson Baker
The importance of my navel / Tim Carvell
A purple pen, a portable home / Elif Shafak
The head of a saint / Audrey Niffenegger
Red and blue notebook / Peter Hobbs
Seahorses / Jill Dawson
Quark / Chip Kidd
"Office" / Caren Beilin
Typewriter / John Byrne
Barricade / Nat Segnit
Rock bottom / Dan Rhodes
Hotel rooms / A.M. Homes
Tobacco / DBC Pierre.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Authorship
-- Anecdotes.
Creative writing. Authors. |
| Publisher | New York :Rizzoli,2007 |
| Contributors |
Crowe, Dan,
1972- Oltermann, Philip, 1981- |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| ISBN | 0847829421 9780847829422 |
| Other | Classic View |