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04010aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 AD0B2578681411EA9E1E8D0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200317010055 008 141205t20152014nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 125007469X 020 $a 9781250074690 035 $a (OCoLC)897785137 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d KAA $d NTE $d OCLCF $d NZHSD $d Z0P $d OCLCO $d OCL $d SFR $d KAY $d SILO 082 00 $a 809 $2 23 245 00 $a By the book : $b writers on literature and the literary life from the New York Times Book Review / $c edited and with an introduction by Pamela Paul ; foreword by Scott Turow ; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki. 250 $a First Picador Edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Picador USA, $c 2015. 300 $a xix, 314 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "A New York Times book." 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a David Sedaris -- Lena Dunham -- Neil Gaiman -- Marry Higgins Clark -- Drew Gilpin Faust -- Carl Hiaasen -- John Irving -- Elizabeth Gilbert -- Richard Ford -- Colin Powell -- Dave Eggers -- Sylvia Nasar -- Ira Glass -- Junot Diaz -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Nicholson Baker -- Emma Thompson -- Michael Chabon -- Jeffrey Eugenides -- J. K. Rowling -- David Mitchell -- John Grisam -- P.J. O'Rourke -- Anne Lamott -- Ian McEwan -- Lee Child -- Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Francine Prose -- Jared Diamond -- Alain de Botton -- Dave Barry -- Katherine Boo -- Marilynne Robinson -- Sheryl Sandberg -- Caronline Kennedy -- Isabel Allende -- Anna Quindlen -- Jonathan Franzen -- Hilary Mantel -- Walter Mosley -- Khaled Hosseini -- Jeannette Walls -- Dan Brown -- Dan Savage -- Christopher Buckley -- Curtis Sittenfeld -- James McBride -- James Patterson -- Jonathan Lethem -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Richard Dawkins -- Sting -- Andrew Solomon-- Malcolm Gladwell -- Scott Turow -- Donna Tartt -- Ann Patchett -- Amy Tan -- Bryan Cranston -- Michael Connelly -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- E.L. Doctorow -- Chang-Rae Lee -- Gary Shteyngart -- Rachel Kushner -- Acknowledgments -- Index 520 $a Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them. Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular "By the Book" feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she brings together sixty-five of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges, featuring personalities as varied as David Sedaris, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Lamott, and James Patterson. These questions and answers admit us into the private worlds of these authors, as they reflect on their work habits, reading preferences, inspirations, pet peeves, and recommendations. By the Book contains the full uncut interviews, reflecting a range of experiences and observations that deepens readers' understanding of the literary sensibility and the writing process. It also features dozens of sidebars that reveal the commonalities and conflicts among the participants, underscoring those influences that are truly universal and those that remain matters of individual taste. If you are a devoted reader, By the Book is a way to invite sixty-five of the most interesting guests into your world. It's a book party not to be missed. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Authors $v Interviews. $9 243270 650 0 $a Books and reading $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Authorship. $9 10179 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft $9 802327 700 1 $a Paul, Pamela, $e editor. $9 174998 700 1 $a Turow, Scott, $e forward. $9 12738 700 1 $a Tamaki, Jillian, $d 1980- $e illustrator. $9 487774 730 0 $a New York Times book review. 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053355.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AD0B2578681411EA9E1E8D0A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search