Comments on: Giveaway: The New York Review of Books 2010 Calendar

By: Erin Briley

Erin Briley — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:17:03 +0000

From those listed, Gore Vidal, but not listed..Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield, with Charles Dickens coming in for dessert.

By: Aurore Leigh Barrett

Aurore Leigh Barrett — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:15:30 +0000

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.

By: Pamela Toler

Pamela Toler — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:56:43 +0000

MFK Fisher. Better yet, Fisher and Laurie Colwin.

What can I say, I like to talk about food while I eat.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:25:43 +0000

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.

By: Vicky Alvear Shecter

Vicky Alvear Shecter — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:15:05 +0000

I’d have to say Gore Vidal, though I would want to wear some kind of extra padding. His barbs hurt! ;o)

By: Delia

Delia — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:28:17 +0000

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!

By: Claudette Raynor

Claudette Raynor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:35:33 +0000

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.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:35:30 +0000

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)

By: Paul Mathers

Paul Mathers — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:31:48 +0000

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.

By: rhapsodyinbooks

rhapsodyinbooks — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:16:02 +0000

Gore Vidal!

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