Thursday, June 30, 2022

10 Male Writers and My Educated Guess at How They Order Their Eggs

 





Raymond Chandler: Hard-boiled

Charles Bukowski: Scrambled

Lewis Carroll: Over-easy

Truman Capote: Coddled

Walker Percy: In a Ramos Gin Fizz

Gustave Flaubert: Souffle

Henry Miller: Raw

A.A. Milne: Baked custard (pictured above, with not enough nutmeg on top)

Ernest Hemingway: Poached

Philip Roth: Served with liver


NOTE: I'm taking a summer break from writer interviews and am just going to have FUN with this blog for a month or so.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

10 Living Writers I Admire Yet Am Afraid to Meet & Why




(in no particular order)

 

1.     Lionel Shriver*: too relentless

2.     Margaret Atwood: too angsty about not yet winning the Nobel she deserves

3.     Donna Tartt: too happy living a life without social media

4.     Zadie Smith: too talented

5.     Roxane Gay: too worried I’m accidentally friends with her nemesis

6.     Erica Jong: too sexy

7.     Jay McInerney: too tired of talking about my beloved second person POV

8.     Jon Krakauer: too eager to investigate

9.     Tara Westover: too educated

10.  Colson Whitehead: too many Pulitzers


*Wearing that sombrero didn't help....


 NOTE: I'm taking a summer break from writer interviews and am just going to have FUN with this blog for a month or so.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

10 Dead Writers I Would Cook For

(in no particular order)




 

1.     Willa Cather: This fellow Midwesterner gets pink Jell-O salad.

2.     J.D. Salinger: I would make him eat a big ole rare steak and a gigantic baked potato with tons of sour cream

3.     F. Scott Fitzgerald: My husband will be charge, and we’ll get out the good silver shaker and FILL it with icy cold gin martinis, all night long.

4.     Ernest Hemingway: I’m not good at cooking fish, but I bet he’d like the spicy, secret salsa and the story of how I wheedled the recipe out of that restaurant owner in Kearny, AZ.

5.     E.B. White: I think I’ll order lox and bagels from Barney Greengrass in NYC.

6.     Louise Fitzhugh: Tomato sandwiches, natch!

7.     Herman Melville: I’m worried about scurvy, so I think I’ll make him a smoothie.

8.     Laurie Colwin: Oh, darling, I’ll happily let you cook for me!

9.     Raymond Carver: Mashed potatoes with gravy (and if you don’t know why, read this).

10.  Nancy Mitford: We each get our VERY own Fuller’s Walnut Cake (pictured above).

 

 NOTE: I'm taking a summer break from writer interviews and am just going to have FUN with this blog for a month or so.

 

 


 

 

 

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DC-area author Leslie Pietrzyk explores the creative process and all things literary.