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Comments on: The Cult of the Author: how far would you go? http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:47:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: 5th Estate · America Decides http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-245335 5th Estate · America Decides Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:32:03 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-245335 [...] The South Bank has been running a series of talks with American writers for the last few months, making explicit the importance of the current moment in American history for all of us. I saw Paul Auster, as I mentioned here, and then last week I saw Toni Morrison. As far as I’m concerned Morrison is a genius. She was the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, one of only 11 women out of the 105 awards since 1901 (our own Doris Lessing was the 11th woman to win it last year) and her work, though challenging, seems to reach beyond the media literati and academics. [...]

]]> By: Jecon Gregory http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-245334 Jecon Gregory Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:06:12 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-245334 When I was sixteen I left Essex, where I was living with my mother in a commune full of Scandinavians, and hitch-hiked to Dover from where I took the night ferry to Boulogne. I travelled with a friend, Johnny Mac, who was nineteen. He had just been sacked from his job at Felixstowe docks where he was responsible for monitoring the throughput of domesticated animals. He’d missed a whole consignment of Mini Lops.

We landed in France around three in the morning and walked through the town and up the long hill heading south. We were to hitch-hike to Paris. By four o’clock we’d left the town behind and were sitting in the dark at the roadside waiting for the cars to wake up when a figure appeared out of the gloom walking towards us.

She stopped to talk. A slim, slight English girl with a pretty face and winning smile, carrying a nylon sports bag with very little in it. She was fifteen and hitch-hiking alone to Barcelona to watch big boys senselessly wasting fuel driving round and round a short motor circuit.

Unlike the Bilbaino you met her goal was not literary but her boldness and sense of adventure surely eclipse his run of the mill travel story and deserve a book or three. Send them to me. If I ever see her again, I’ll hand them over. I thank you on her behalf.

Jecon G.

]]> By: Scott Pack http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-242173 Scott Pack Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:50:36 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-242173 This Roche chap clearly has too much time on his hands. Right, another cup of tea beckons. Where's the cake? This Roche chap clearly has too much time on his hands.

Right, another cup of tea beckons. Where’s the cake?

]]> By: Louise Tucker http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-240313 Louise Tucker Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:01:13 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-240313 I am very intrigued by the Hoff story, but I assume that you were inside the behemoth that is Borders, rather than sleeping on the street which means it’s not really your story…or was it? Do you have Hoff-signed memorabilia to prove your devotion? I can’t wait to see it…

And, yes, the mirrored pose adopted by myself and Auster is a bit unfortunate. But at least I am in good company. Did you see Scott Pack’s blog on the chin pose: http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/scottpack/2008/10/some-people-are.html? Very amusing to see them all side by side.

]]> By: David Roche http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-240233 David Roche Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:48:36 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-240233 Actually I have just noticed that one can go no further than posing in the mirror for your photo on this blog and trying to imitate the pose of your worshipped author... See jackets of the majority of celeb memoirs this Christmas to learn exactly how to do all-important hand on chin pose. Actually I have just noticed that one can go no further than posing in the mirror for your photo on this blog and trying to imitate the pose of your worshipped author…

See jackets of the majority of celeb memoirs this Christmas to learn exactly how to do all-important hand on chin pose.

]]> By: David Roche http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-240231 David Roche Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:45:24 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-240231 Do you mean 'distant'? Right. 40 members of the Hoff fan club in Germany coming to London and camping overnight outside Borders Oxford Street and through the whole next day for the David Hasselhoff signing. OK, not very good but I just want one of the posh proofs of the Lace Reader. And I would come and get it. Do you mean ‘distant’?

Right. 40 members of the Hoff fan club in Germany coming to London and camping overnight outside Borders Oxford Street and through the whole next day for the David Hasselhoff signing.

OK, not very good but I just want one of the posh proofs of the Lace Reader. And I would come and get it.

]]> By: Louise Tucker http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-240190 Louise Tucker Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:37:44 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-240190 David, I'm sure we could stretch to delivering them by hand in these circumstances, though the 4th floor is quite a long way away...! David, I’m sure we could stretch to delivering them by hand in these circumstances, though the 4th floor is quite a long way away…!

]]> By: David Roche http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-240162 David Roche Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:31:38 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-240162 Before entering this competition I would need to know if I would have to make the journey to Press/4th Estate from the 4th floor or if the books would be delivered. Before entering this competition I would need to know if I would have to make the journey to Press/4th Estate from the 4th floor or if the books would be delivered.

]]> By: Claire Connolly http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-239338 Claire Connolly Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:30:35 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-239338 I usually find that a trip to the bookshop or library suffices. I usually find that a trip to the bookshop or library suffices.

]]> By: Jessica Axe http://www.fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-239265 Jessica Axe Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:29:45 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2008/10/the-cult-of-the-author-how-far-would-you-go/#comment-239265 I heard a story once that a young woman had hitchhiked all the way from Russia to the Hay Festival in order to see Paul McCartney. She didn't even have a ticket for his event! Never found out if she got to meet him... I heard a story once that a young woman had hitchhiked all the way from Russia to the Hay Festival in order to see Paul McCartney. She didn’t even have a ticket for his event!

Never found out if she got to meet him…

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