If you could have dinner with one author, dead or living, who would you pick and why?
Amanda:
“Tough choice! I can narrow it down to Philip K. Dick and Oscar Wilde. PKD because I would love to see how his mind communicated his world view (as paranoid as it was). I’ve been reading the Exegesis of PKD off and on for a couple years. Super heavy, wacky stuff, but fascinating and riveting at the same time. Oscar on the other hand, (and yes I did kiss his tomb stone when we went to Paris!) would be suck a delight with his old world charm and wit. The Importance of Being Ernest is the second funniest piece I’ve ever read. (Good Omens by Gaiman/Pratchett is first). I have no doubt it would be an enchanted evening!”
Eileen:
“Well, if dinner were tonight I would say Annie Proulx… I just finished her fat tome Barkskins and, despite its 700+ pages, I’ve more questions. The research she undertook for this latest novel fascinates me.”
Grey:
“Neil Gaiman. In my mind, no other author comes close to his story writing brilliance (besides perhaps David Mitchell), and he also seems like a geniunely nice human, so I think it would be a pleasant dinner with good conversation about some pretty cool stories.”
Chantel:
“This is really hard for me. Do I pick Stephen King (whose house my husband took me to the other day!! SO COOL!); John Connolly, whose lilting irish accent I could listen to all day; or R.L. Stine, whose Goosebumps series got me really serious about reading as a kid? While I love them all, I think for this particular instance I would choose Alvin Schwartz. His Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books(illustrated by Stephen Gammell, please & thanks) have entertained me for years – first as a child, and still now as an adult. I pull my copies out every year during October and it always brings me back. The Viper is still my favorite from book 1.”
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