Giveaway: The New York Review of Books 2010 Calendar
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Ahhh… Downright bookishly good news for the year ahead! Wonders & Marvels is offering a chance to win one of five of The New York Review of Books 2010 calendars. The calendar features 13 portraits of Review writers by Dominique Nabokov whose portraits have appeared in the Review since 1980. This black and white collection includes photographs of
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John Updike
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Gore Vidal
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Joan Didion
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Derek Walcott
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Joyce Carol Oates
The 11″ x 11″ wall format includes large date blocks for recording notes, appointments and otherwise memorable moments.
For a chance to win a copy, just comment in answer to this question: Which of the aforementioned writers (or perhaps one of your own choosing) would you most like to entertain as a dinner guest/have a cuppa joe — or a shot of bourbon — with? Please comment by midnight Eastern time, November 29, 2009. Sorry, but we can only ship to North America at this time. Winners will be announced soon after the draw. Good luck!
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Sounds like a lovely calendar. Thanks for the chance to win it
My choice would be Gore Vidal. How interesting!
That’s a tough question. I’ll have to go with Updike. Thank you for hosting a contest
—happy holidays!
Gosh, there are so many great authors I’ve love to sit down and chat with. If it were possible to go back in time I would love to chat with Timothy Findley.
Gore Vidal!
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I think I would most enjoy chatting with Gore Vidal. I would like to hear first hand what he has to say on the topics of Lincoln, the war, current trends in American politics, and the state of literature, art, film. Although I suspect I might run into problems with what I really want to ask him about which would be his feud with Truman Capote. I would love to hear Vidal’s side candidly (Capote was famously unabashedly vocal about his side of the story) although, as I understand it, I doubt I would get it.
Perhaps this is symptomatic of why I don’t generally get to have dinner with famous people.
I’d like to share a six-pack with John Updike.
Consider the beer can. It was beautiful — as beautiful as the clothespin, as inevitable as the wine bottle, as dignified and reassuring as the fire hydrant. A tranquil cylinder of delightfully resonant metal, it could be opened in an instant, requiring only the application of a handy gadget freely dispensed by every grocer. Who can forget the small, symmetrical thrill of those two triangular punctures, the dainty piff, the little crest of suds that foamed eagerly in the exultation of release?
(John Updike. New Yorker. 1964. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1964/01/18/1964_01_18_023_TNY_CARDS_000274563)
I would either ask Gore Vidal or Joyce Carol Oates to dinner. I would want ask Gore what influence did Amelia play in his life?? and what roll does the writer play in activism and politics? I would like to ask Joyce Carol Oates though about life as woman writer. Did she always think she would be writer? What was it like trying to get published? etc. They are both very interesting people.
I’d really love to have a cup of coffee with the British writer David Mitchell. But I wouldn’t say no to any of the above writers either!
I’d have to say Gore Vidal, though I would want to wear some kind of extra padding. His barbs hurt! ;o)
Aldous Huxley. I’m reading his collection of short stories now — and though I haven’t any of his wit and my vocabulary would immediately shrink to a dozen monosyllables — it would be a delight.
By the way, the New York Review of Books is one of my guilty (as it’s rather expensive) pleasures. Highly recommended subscription.
MFK Fisher. Better yet, Fisher and Laurie Colwin.
What can I say, I like to talk about food while I eat.
The person I would most love to have dinner with is C. S. Lewis. I would especially like to discuss falling in love at an age when one thinks he is beyond all love, and knowing that this was the love worth waiting for. He found that love in Joy.
From those listed, Gore Vidal, but not listed..Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield, with Charles Dickens coming in for dessert.