Literature?

jacobwilliam1 · 11-05-2009, 01:12 AM

If You were to write a letter to an author explaining your reaction to his or her book, play, or story, who would you pick? why? which work of literature? Is there anything you would ask them that was unanswered in the book? I plan to, but there are so many authors, who do you think?

blazeofglory · 11-05-2009, 02:43 AM

Start with intriducing yourself

Modest Proposal · 11-06-2009, 04:55 PM

Really interesting question. I first thought you meant theoretically, as in: which author would you most like to talk to.

As to your question, there are honestly not a lot of living authors I'm that interested in. I appreciate the skill of Roth and Pynchem, but can't imagine they'd want to hear from me or really that what they'd have to say is all that meaningful to someone they don't know.

Honestly, I would probably write someone less famous whose work I appreciated and for whom I had a very specific question. I imagine people would see through a question contrived to authorize a coorospondence.

For me the author would probably be Mario Vargas Llosa. I don't really know why.

glover7 · 11-06-2009, 10:31 PM

James Joyce. And it would be a letter bomb.

11-05-2009, 01:12 AM	#1
jacobwilliam1 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1	Literature? If You were to write a letter to an author explaining your reaction to his or her book, play, or story, who would you pick? why? which work of literature? Is there anything you would ask them that was unanswered in the book? I plan to, but there are so many authors, who do you think? __________________ Thanks... Last edited by jacobwilliam1; 11-13-2009 at 11:04 PM.

11-05-2009, 02:43 AM	#2
blazeofglory Haribol Acharya Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Kathmandu Posts: 3,728	Start with intriducing yourself __________________ I am a poet and live the way a poet does A mimic and all I do is mimicry

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11-06-2009, 04:55 PM	#3
Modest Proposal Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Southern California, soon bound for elsewhere. Posts: 78	Really interesting question. I first thought you meant theoretically, as in: which author would you most like to talk to. As to your question, there are honestly not a lot of living authors I'm that interested in. I appreciate the skill of Roth and Pynchem, but can't imagine they'd want to hear from me or really that what they'd have to say is all that meaningful to someone they don't know. Honestly, I would probably write someone less famous whose work I appreciated and for whom I had a very specific question. I imagine people would see through a question contrived to authorize a coorospondence. For me the author would probably be Mario Vargas Llosa. I don't really know why.

11-06-2009, 10:31 PM	#4
glover7 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 63	James Joyce. And it would be a letter bomb.