The Book of Other People
- Authors
- Smith, Zadie
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Tags
- fiction , fantasy , writing , anthologies , american , contemporary , fiction - technique , essays , literary collections , literary , english , anthologies (multiple authors) , characters and characteristics in literature , short stories
- ISBN
- 9781101201268
- Date
- 2007-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.09 MB
- Lang
- en
A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character
"The Book of Other People" is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight "realism"-if such a thing exists-is not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples.
The writers featured in "The Book of Other People" include:
Aleksandar Hemon
Nick Hornby
Hari Kunzru
Toby Litt
David Mitchell
George Saunders
Colm Toibin
Chris Ware, and more