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Up for grabs: Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
Orange Connection: Short List, 2012
Your activity: You’re throwing a dinner party, and you can invite two authors (male or female, and still alive). Who would you invite? Tell us in the comments below.
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Jul 27, 2012 @ 18:15:30
Definitely Jeanette Winterson, and since I met Coelho last year, I would go with Haruki Murakami… I wonder what I would serve, since Jeanette is a vegetarian, but I am not sure about Murakami
Jul 27, 2012 @ 18:16:23
I would ask Chuck Palahniuk and Barbara Kingsolver, which would result in a very entertaining dinner. However, I would truly lke to invite so many more!
Jul 28, 2012 @ 09:05:34
Congratulations, Phoebe! You are today’s winner! =)
Jul 27, 2012 @ 18:30:59
I’d also definitely ask Jeanette Winterson; she was the first one to immediately come to mind, no question. The second is harder – do we want controversy at the dinner table, do we want a fun time, do we want scintilating intellectual conversation, or do we want something else altogether? I’ll go with a combination of fun and the intellectual, and invite Sarah Waters along too. I gather they’re friends, so we should all have a wonderfully enjoyable evening…
Jul 27, 2012 @ 19:30:00
I’m all about fun and laughter at a dinner party. I would have Tina Fey and Joan Rivers (she did write a book years ago).
Jul 27, 2012 @ 19:31:38
I would invite Ruth Rendell and Harlan Coben two of my favourite writers.
Jul 27, 2012 @ 19:53:47
Salman Rushdie, both because I love his writing and because I have heard that he is a very decent guy. And Anne Michaels, because I absolutely loved Fugitive Pieces and it involved such a wide range of knowledge–geology to poetry! If she can’t come, her compatriot Margaret Atwood is another favorite of mine!
Jul 27, 2012 @ 21:18:44
I’d invite Rose Tremaine and Richard Powers and we’d all have a wonderful time! Again, I don’t need to be entered in this drawing. Good luck, everybody!
Jul 27, 2012 @ 21:32:36
I’d invite Ian McEwan and Haruki Murakami.
Jul 28, 2012 @ 01:59:28
For a totally fun evening, I would invite two of my guilty pleasure authors…
Jennifer Weiner for her biting chick lit humor and Stephen King for his horrific sense of the macabre!
How’s that for a wild combo, Jill??
Jul 28, 2012 @ 08:53:20
I’d love to invite Kazuo Ishiguro and Vikram Seth.