Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons

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These ingenious interviews will amuse, provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to the wildly silly, Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to sit down with their heroes and flex their cerebral muscles, or simply indulge in some bookish gossip with a deceased icon. Pitch-perfect mimesis meets razor sharp literary criticism in the book that refuses to let dead writers lie.

Contributors include: David Mitchell on Samuel Johnson, Cynthia Ozick on Henry James, AM Homes on Richard Nixon, John Burnside on Rachel Carson, Ian Rankin on Conan Doyle, Geoff Dyer on Nietzsche, Michel Faber on Duchamp, Rick Moody on Jimi Hendrix, Douglas Coupland on Andy Warhol plus Sam Leith, Neil Labute, Rebecca Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, ZZ Packer, William T Vollman and Samantha Morton.

Reviews

Some will make you see how skilful properly clued-up interviewers are, while others will make you hoot - Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph

Irresistible. [Filled with] erudite wit - Alice Jones, Independent

Entertaining... sometimes viciously funny - Daniel Hahn, Independent on Sunday

Diverting - Tom Gatti, New Statesman

Clever - Peter Conrad, Observer

Enormous fun - Bookseller

Intriguing and clever - The Star

Full of wit and imaginative verve - Sydney Morning HeraldStrangely addictive - NZ Listener

Some will make you see how skilful properly clued-up interviewers are, while others will make you hoot - Toby Clements, "Daily Telegraph"
Irresistible. [Filled with] erudite wit - Alice Jones, "Independent"
Entertaining... sometimes viciously funny - Daniel Hahn, "Independent on Sunday"
Diverting - Tom Gatti, "New Statesman"
Clever - Peter Conrad, "Observer"
Enormous fun - "Bookseller"
Intriguing and clever - "The Star"
Full of wit and imaginative verve - "Sydney Morning Herald"Strangely addictive - "NZ Listener"

Author Bio

Dan Crowe is the co-founder and co-publisher of Port, an alternative men's magazine. He has previously edited Writers on the Edge: Great Contemporary Authors on the Front Line of Crisis (Rizzoli, 2010).