Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons

by Dan Crowe

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. The Rick Moody on Jimi Hendrix, Cynthia Ozick on Henry James, Douglas Coupland on Andy Warhol, Sam Leith on John Berryman, Geoff Dyer on Friedrich Nietzsche, A. M. Homes on Richard Nixon, David Mitchell on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, John Burnside on Rachel Carson, ZZ Packer on Monsieur de Saint-George, Michel Faber on Marcel Duchamp, Rebecca Miller on the Marquis de Sade, Ian Rankin on Arthur Conan Doyle and Joyce Carol Oates on Robert Frost.

Genres: Fiction

Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2013

Reviews

[Didi · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favourite interviews are Coupland's Warhol and Rankin's Doyle. Had me laughing. Oates' Frost and Miller's Sade was interesting too. The rest feels like fillers to me.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Theut · Rating 3 out of 5]

Il primo libro del 2017 non è stato scelto con mano felice. Su 13 interviste, 4/5 sono davvero divertenti, le altre non sono particolarmente interessanti (sembra il compitino fatto durnte le vacanze estive). Dipenderà dal fatto che gli autori non mi piacciono particolarmente?

[Simon Sweetman · Rating 1 out of 5]

An idea that was probably best left on paper outside of this book - famous writers interview dead literary heroes. And also Jimi Hendrix. Some of the writers get the voice right and play it for laughs too, other times it's extreme - absurd - navel-gazing. Disappointing, ultimately.

[Lisa]

Uneven. A lot of missed opportunities for what could have been really great "interviews." Great concept though!

[David Macpherson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I adored this collection of fictional interviews. Fine writers interviewed icons of the past. Most of the icons were writers. I liked it when the authors did not worry too much how the interview was happening, just allowing the conversation to happen but for the most part, the pieces were great. I even loved the long story written by Joyce Carol Oates where a female writer interviews Robert Frost. I don't care for her work, but this story, ending all the other fictional interviews, was a perfect ending for a smart and lovely book.