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Friday, June 23, 2017

Writers for Dinner


You can invite 12 writers, living or dead, novels and plays, for dinner and they will magically appear. Who would make your list?

 My quick choices:
  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Charles Dickens
  3. Flannery O'Connor
  4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  5. George Orwell
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Anthony Trollope
  8. Agatha Christie
  9. Tom Wolfe
  10. John Updike
  11. Graham Greene
  12. William Faulkner
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9 comments:

  1. Vince Dunn5:52 AM

    David McCullough

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  2. Michael Wade6:13 AM

    Vince,

    Great choice but, to be fair, I should ask for a list of historians.

    I'll do that next week. Please be thinking of the ones you'd like at the table with McCullough.

    Michael

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  3. Harvey Morrell8:02 AM

    Jim Harrison, Robert B. Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Oliver, Ingeborg Bachmann, H.L. Mencken (I get to include him for Heliogabalus (A Buffoonery in Three Acts) (1920)), Virginia Woolf, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Wisława Szymborska, Robert Heinlein, David Brin, and Jerzy Kosinski.

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  4. Michael Wade8:07 AM

    Harvey,

    Wow!

    May I pour the wine and linger in the background?

    Michael

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  5. Harvey Morrell9:10 AM

    Of course! You and Kurt Harden are also invited. :)

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  6. Michael Wade9:37 AM

    Harvey,

    That would be a hard invitation to turn down.

    Michael

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  7. Eclecticity6:18 PM

    Frank Schaeffer
    Robert Coles
    Brennan Manning
    Simon Tugwell, O.P.
    Maya Angelou
    Dean Koontz
    Stephen King
    Richard Rohr, O.F.M.
    Robert Caro
    Camille Paglia

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  8. Eclecticity6:19 PM

    Sorry about adding people who wrote/write non-fiction and I only offered 10. I will add Updike and O'Conner. E.

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  9. Michael Wade7:37 PM

    E,

    Many thanks!

    A very interesting list.

    Michael

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