365 Top Ten Lists. This is my project for 2010.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Ten Authors I Would Like to Hear Speak at the Williamstown Literary Festival.

* I did not mention the words feasible, possible or realistic. Unavailability due to other commitments or being on other realms of existence is not a consideration.

1. Steinbeck speaking about metaphor.
2. Rushdie advising how to make things strange.
3. Woolfe in an intimate conversation about living in her time, knowing who she knew, and sadness.
4. Blyton speaking about magic.
5. Rowling in a large auditorium, evangelist style, on selling yourself and the ‘big picture’ of multiple novels.
6. Kerouac, with a gathering around him, in a pub somewhere, chatting about hanging out, jazz and hitting the road.
7. Patterson, James, syndicated and broadcast, lecturing on entrepreneurialism.
8. Austin, over coffee, gossiping.
9. Shakespeare sneakily rehashing ideas on rehashing ideas.
10. Wilde on whether Intentions is just a piss-take.

1 comment:

  1. Of the five, the best I can do is let you know that Rowling has a talk on TED titled The Fringe Benefits of Failure. Haven't watched it yet, so not sure if it covers what you want.

    http://www.ted.com/speakers/jk_rowling.html

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