Weird thing to say, but Ana’s manicured hands with her jewelries always give this “she’s put together” vibe even when she acts so goofy! I love it. So elegant all the time!
These are my top four : (In no particular order) 1. Joan Didion 2. Joan Didion 3. Joan Didion 4. Joan Didion and OH MY GOD now that you mention it 5. Patti Smith
I actually was invited to dinner by my favorite author, Mr. Ivan Doig, but he lived in Seattle and I was in Montana so I couldn't make it. He died a while back though and I kick myself that I was never able to take him up on that, but I did get to interview him a couple of times. He was such a sweet, genuine man. His books were an extention of who he was and how he saw the world.
Cliché but Anthony Bourdain and Nora Ephron I love the intersection between food and literature and they did it best. Then I'd go have a drink with Deborah Levy and Lorrie Moore because I love everything they write
Ana, BEE is and has been one of my favorite authors for decades. You have to read Lunar Park. It's a really unusual postmodern horror story where BEE is the main character living in the suburbs and encounters some disturbing paranormal stuff. It's absolutely phenomenal.
authors i would love to have a conversation with ---- 1. Ismat Chughtai she was an Indian novelist who wrote a lot on feminity and middle-class family/social dynamics. She definitely wrote and created during a time in the Indian Subcontinent when women did not participate in the conversation. 2.James Baldwin- he had such different experiences than me but i am almost always enamoured by his writing. 3. Suzzane Collins- a formative author in my teenage years and her perspective on writing these stories is also very compelling now that i understand a lot of subtexts of what is written in Hunger Games i would love to indulge in a conversation. Lastly, Iris Murdoch- she has not written one novel that i don't like even with so many grey and outright unpleasant characters her writing holds my attention from the start. There are many more but for now i think this is my answer!!!!
Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy are the big three. The others are James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac, Eugene O'Neill, Shakespeare, Dante, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Larson, John Steinbeck, the Brontë sisters, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Arthur Miller, Jorge Luis Borges, Ingmar Bergman (best script writer ever), Akira Kurosawa (co-wrote a lot of scripts), and many others I can't think of at this moment.
For me: Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Anais Nin, Ayn Rand, Banana Yoshimoto, Zadie Smith, Jesmyn Ward, Ottessa Moshfegh, Donna Tartt, Helen Oyeyemi, Fernanda Melchor, Clarice Lispector, Agustina Bazterrica, Raven Leilani, Bret Easton Ellis, John Waters, and Melissa Broder. Very chaotic but I picked people who I think has something interesting to say and stand strong in their convictions and ideals no matter if I agree or not. Those last 4 are more of a kiki.
Wow! You summed up perfectly what I think about Bret Easton Ellis! I also read the Shards last year and I absolutely loved it! A 5 star book for me. Also, unrelated but I think you are very funny and classy, I love your personality 😊
Patti Smith is the goddess and Ham on Rye is one of the greatest books written, that fucking part about him hiding in the trunk and discovering his dad cheating is still livid in my mind, also the parts about his acne.
Your house just seems to lovely and cosy! Authors I’d love to have dinner with (in no particular order): Ottessa Moshfegh, Joan Didion, Mary Shelley, JRR Tolkien, Bret Easton Ellis, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, Homer, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Stephen King.
This was a great topic for a video! I really enjoyed it. I am in awe of John Steinbeck also and I would ask him what he thinks about so many of his books becoming beloved classics. Another choice would be Donna Tartt and I would ask her when we can expect her next book❤😊
Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Milan Kundera, Leo Tolstoy, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau. Plato, Confucius, and Bob Dylan and James Dean even though he didn’t publish anything, it would just be great to say "hey Jimmy, pass the salt"
Murakami, obvi but he is probably as socially awkward as me, so that might be a tough dinner. Donna Tartt. Dideon is a good one. Magda Szabo might also be a tough conversation but she’s on the list. And Banana Yoshimoto would be fun, I think.
Wow, so many to choose from. I would have dinner with Celine (not Dion) ha…Richard Wright…Ha Jin…Mishima…Didion…Truman Capote …etc… & a gazillion others that have slipped my mind. Always enjoy your videos . Thank you…”
Ooh, Benjamin Labatut, it would be embarrassing because I would try to chat him up, I love his obsession with insanity, the unknown, and mathematicians. I think Chuck Palahniuk would be a super fun dinner guest, I'd probably make something I find gross like pork in aspic, and I feel like he would eat it while talking about a similar dish found in a cannibal recipe book lovingly passed from generation to generation. I'd enjoy meeting Roger Penrose before he's gone, but I'd be afraid to speak. Jim Holt would be cool because he's philosophical but also funny and open minded.
I would love to have dinner with Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Daphné Du Maurier, Flannery O'connor, and Simone De Beauvoir, Patti Smith, and Oscar Wilde. I think It would be a hoot.
Zadie Smith has been a defender of some of the most horrific crimes which her fans ardently deny or ignore. The fact that unlike some other famous authors (Jk Rowling for instance), she isn't held accountable for carrying water for genocidal regimes shows how little the literary community in the US care about human rights.
I would like to have dinner with Stephen King, J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl. These are the writers I grew up with and the reasons I started to enjoy reading. Now I mainly read literature from other writers and other genres, but I think that if you don't like reading and you start reading Harry Potter, for example, you can become a reader.
Weird thing to say, but Ana’s manicured hands with her jewelries always give this “she’s put together” vibe even when she acts so goofy! I love it. So elegant all the time!
Of course thats possible. If i can't be elegant and goofy, then I don't want elegance!
These are my top four :
(In no particular order)
1. Joan Didion
2. Joan Didion
3. Joan Didion
4. Joan Didion
and OH MY GOD now that you mention it
5. Patti Smith
She might be my #1. I’m not a person who rates things but Year of the Monkey has become my favorite book.
youre legitimately one of the few people i enjoy watching on youtube. as well as jack edward’s and dakota warren. you three are like the holy trinity.
my husband wants to just watch bukowski and virginia woolf have a conversation
Clarice Lispector ❤
I actually was invited to dinner by my favorite author, Mr. Ivan Doig, but he lived in Seattle and I was in Montana so I couldn't make it. He died a while back though and I kick myself that I was never able to take him up on that, but I did get to interview him a couple of times. He was such a sweet, genuine man. His books were an extention of who he was and how he saw the world.
Cliché but Anthony Bourdain and Nora Ephron I love the intersection between food and literature and they did it best. Then I'd go have a drink with Deborah Levy and Lorrie Moore because I love everything they write
Ooh Anthony Bourdain for sure!! his politics and of course his life in the kitchen will be so interesting to talk about!
Ana, BEE is and has been one of my favorite authors for decades. You have to read Lunar Park. It's a really unusual postmodern horror story where BEE is the main character living in the suburbs and encounters some disturbing paranormal stuff. It's absolutely phenomenal.
authors i would love to have a conversation with ---- 1. Ismat Chughtai she was an Indian novelist who wrote a lot on feminity and middle-class family/social dynamics. She definitely wrote and created during a time in the Indian Subcontinent when women did not participate in the conversation. 2.James Baldwin- he had such different experiences than me but i am almost always enamoured by his writing. 3. Suzzane Collins- a formative author in my teenage years and her perspective on writing these stories is also very compelling now that i understand a lot of subtexts of what is written in Hunger Games i would love to indulge in a conversation. Lastly, Iris Murdoch- she has not written one novel that i don't like even with so many grey and outright unpleasant characters her writing holds my attention from the start. There are many more but for now i think this is my answer!!!!
Bram Stoker!!!! Id probably fall in love lol
Mine would be Haruki Murakami and John Steinbeck. ♡
Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy are the big three.
The others are James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac, Eugene O'Neill, Shakespeare, Dante, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Larson, John Steinbeck, the Brontë sisters, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Arthur Miller, Jorge Luis Borges, Ingmar Bergman (best script writer ever), Akira Kurosawa (co-wrote a lot of scripts), and many others I can't think of at this moment.
For me: Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Anais Nin, Ayn Rand, Banana Yoshimoto, Zadie Smith, Jesmyn Ward, Ottessa Moshfegh, Donna Tartt, Helen Oyeyemi, Fernanda Melchor, Clarice Lispector, Agustina Bazterrica, Raven Leilani, Bret Easton Ellis, John Waters, and Melissa Broder.
Very chaotic but I picked people who I think has something interesting to say and stand strong in their convictions and ideals no matter if I agree or not. Those last 4 are more of a kiki.
Wow! You summed up perfectly what I think about Bret Easton Ellis! I also read the Shards last year and I absolutely loved it! A 5 star book for me.
Also, unrelated but I think you are very funny and classy, I love your personality 😊
Patti Smith is the goddess and Ham on Rye is one of the greatest books written, that fucking part about him hiding in the trunk and discovering his dad cheating is still livid in my mind, also the parts about his acne.
Clarice lispector, Joan didion and Donna tartt ❣️❣️
Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Patti Smith, Eve Babitz, and Carl Jung.
Your house just seems to lovely and cosy! Authors I’d love to have dinner with (in no particular order): Ottessa Moshfegh, Joan Didion, Mary Shelley, JRR Tolkien, Bret Easton Ellis, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, Homer, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Stephen King.
Tolkien is one I SO would love to have dinner with!
John Waters for the fun sushi date for sure!
That would be a blast!
Bukowski would ba a great dinner guest
This was a great topic for a video! I really enjoyed it. I am in awe of John Steinbeck also and I would ask him what he thinks about so many of his books becoming beloved classics. Another choice would be Donna Tartt and I would ask her when we can expect her next book❤😊
Love thisssss. I would pick Miranda July, Patricia Lockwood, Elena Ferrante (whomever she may be), Ottessa Moshfegh, and Ross Gay
Bukowski ❤️🩹 and omg yes Ellis! Also my beloved Kafka and Dostoevskij... I can totally see you being bestie with Melissa Broder 💖
Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Milan Kundera, Leo Tolstoy, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau. Plato, Confucius, and Bob Dylan and James Dean even though he didn’t publish anything, it would just be great to say "hey Jimmy, pass the salt"
Lord Byron ❤
anaïs nin, ayn rand, daphne du maurier -not sure if they would have get along but it would be a night to remember!!
This is such a chaotic roundup and I love it lmao.
Capitalize their names??
Murakami, obvi but he is probably as socially awkward as me, so that might be a tough dinner. Donna Tartt. Dideon is a good one. Magda Szabo might also be a tough conversation but she’s on the list. And Banana Yoshimoto would be fun, I think.
Prosecco brunch with Austin, Dickinson, Woolf and Rhys! ❤
Ah sure let’s add Brontë girlies to the mix also!
Patti Smith, Mary Oliver, Jacqueline Suskin
♥️🫶🐞
I thought about this for far too long. I'd want to have dinner with Edward Abbey.
If there's one, it's Sylvia Plath.
Same I love her vibes but .. I'd ask her if she was racist lol.
Mine is John Steinbeck for sure!!
I would dinner with… Stephen King, John Irving.
I knew Johnny was gonna be first on the list!
Melissa Broder and Banana Yoshimoto and Jamaica Kincaid and Samantha hunt!
Wow, so many to choose from. I would have dinner with Celine (not Dion) ha…Richard Wright…Ha Jin…Mishima…Didion…Truman Capote …etc… & a gazillion others that have slipped my mind. Always enjoy your videos . Thank you…”
Ooh, Benjamin Labatut, it would be embarrassing because I would try to chat him up, I love his obsession with insanity, the unknown, and mathematicians. I think Chuck Palahniuk would be a super fun dinner guest, I'd probably make something I find gross like pork in aspic, and I feel like he would eat it while talking about a similar dish found in a cannibal recipe book lovingly passed from generation to generation. I'd enjoy meeting Roger Penrose before he's gone, but I'd be afraid to speak. Jim Holt would be cool because he's philosophical but also funny and open minded.
Give me ... Zora Neal Hurston, Kahlil Gibran, TaNehisi Coates, Charles Bukowski
I thought for sure you would have said John Waters.I picture him eating in a old silver Diner Car. Oscar Wild would be fun,he has such wit.
oh yea, definitely Oscar Wilde!
Clive Barker for sure
I would love to have dinner with Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Daphné Du Maurier, Flannery O'connor, and Simone De Beauvoir, Patti Smith, and Oscar Wilde. I think It would be a hoot.
I should add that I'd like to have them all at one dinner table
Stoker❤🥰
1. rachel cusk
2. donna tart
3. sally rooney
4. sylvia plath
5. virginia woolf
basically 5 sad white women, bc that what i am, i can relate.
Who's paying for dinner?
Murakami
Camus
Atwood
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm cheating and adding this after I've read comments. Also Joan Didion.
I’m currently reading sylvia plath and I’d like to have a drink with her
Wow, no John Waters?! He must be hella entertaining
Joan didion……. And that’s it… don’t need anyone else there.
absolutely seconded
Steinbeck: sadly, they’re not even teaching full books anymore. It’s depressing but on par with our decreasing valuation of knowledge. Ugh, sorry.
Fay Weldon and maybe Roxane Gay
Proust!
Zadie Smith has been a defender of some of the most horrific crimes which her fans ardently deny or ignore. The fact that unlike some other famous authors (Jk Rowling for instance), she isn't held accountable for carrying water for genocidal regimes shows how little the literary community in the US care about human rights.
I would like to have dinner with Stephen King, J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl. These are the writers I grew up with and the reasons I started to enjoy reading. Now I mainly read literature from other writers and other genres, but I think that if you don't like reading and you start reading Harry Potter, for example, you can become a reader.
have you read Roald Dahl for adults? He's quite something
@ yes, I've read a few like Uncle Oswald and he's also written some movie scripts like James Bond; you only live twice
I'd want to have dinner you with queen 🫰
I would love to have dinner with osho❤
You look like someone from an Wes Anderson movie.