As the series chugs inexorably (ambles merrily) (strides manfully) (limps painfully) (hides dizzily) (yes, I've been watching too much Top Model) towards the possibility of signing up some more new books in 2007 - but please don't send me anything yet! - thoughts turn to potential authors. God knows if any of these people would even want to write one, but my dream list would include:
Scarlett Thomas
Mark Danielewski
Haruki Murakami
Robert Forster
Ian Rankin
Richard Powers
Louise Welsh
Helen DeWitt
If there are any people you would love to see write a book for the series, let me know in the comments section - thanks!
29 comments:
dave eggers
zadie smith
knox robinson
Colson Whitehead
David Foster Wallace
Steve Barker, of the The Wire BBC! If you're writing about music, Barker is the one person you gotta have in this series.
Nick Hornby!
William T. Vollmann
Amy Hempel
Nicholson Baker
I second Nick Hornby.
Chuck Klosterman could be a good choice, too.
I understand why people think Nick Hornby would be a good choice, but I think for him to do a book in this series would be sort of gross.
i second colson whitehead!
also:
greg tate
nelson george
Vollmann!
D.F. Wallace!
Zizek!
Bobby Pollard
Jack Rabid
Ian Christie
Neil Peart
Eugene Chadbourne
Jeff Tweedy
John Zorn
Marc Ribot
How about a poet:
Jed Rasula
Ron Silliman!!!!
Geoff Dyer
Lucius Shepard:
Mainly a writer of literate SF/fantasy/horror, he spent a chunk of the '70s in rock bands, plus he specializes in works of novella length. He'd be great for something like Miles Davis' '70s work. Here's a short essay he wrote on the topic:
http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/32/618.html?1153128339
Brian Evenson
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2006/10/book_notes_bria.html
rick moody
jonathan lethem
george pelecanos
What about David Barker, PhD?
ha ha. something tells me the boat's sailed on that one, eh dr. david?
Me!
Musicians:
Nick Cave
Bob Dylan
Mark E Smith
Hows about expanding the range to include graphics from the likes of Alan Moore or Grant Morrison?
David E. James (film scholar)
Martin Scorsese
i like the mark e. smith suggestion, but only if it's written in dialect.
I would seriously recommend getting in touch with Dr. Jonathan Smele, a lecturer in Russian history at the University of London. Aside from knowing Russia inside out and back again, he's also the foremost Daniel Johnston expert in Britain and was the first man to interview Teenage Fanclub. Fine scholarly writing + a love for pop= instant success, no?
Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (the last novel that floored me). He loves music and knows how to write about what music can mean to adolescents coming of age.
Rebecca Brown
Kathleen Hanna
Ted Leo
Jeff Chang
Might I humbly recommend myself?
David Marchese
Bret Easton Ellis... His random thoughts in American Psycho (via Patrick Batemen) on Huey Lewis and Genesis helped me get through that book. He could surely tackle an important '80s album with ease.
John Darnielle.
www.lastplanetojakarta.com
Yeah, I'll do one.
Scarlett T
www.bookgirl.org
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