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This is the web site of author Steven Saylor. Click here to visit the Home Page. |
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 Steven Saylor photograph: R. Solomon Steven Saylor: Bibliofile Which book are you reading now? In September, the Light Changes: The Short Stories of Andrew Holleran Who is your favourite novelist? Mary Renault Where is your favourite place to read? The hammock in my garden Which contemporary author do you most admire? Gore Vidal What is your favourite quotation? Flaubert: “Be regular and bourgeois in your habits, so that you may be wild and profligate in your writing.” What is your favourite poem? “Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens What is your favourite play? Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” What is the first book you can remember reading? The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss Do you have a comfort book that you reread? The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany What is the funniest book you have read? Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay What is the saddest book you have read? The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran And the most erotic? Justine by Lawrence Durrell What is the most difficult book you have read? Moby Dick by Herman Melville Name three desert island choices Clarissa by Samuel Richardson; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Pliny’s Natural History Who is your favourite character? Sherlock Holmes What is your most overrated book? Anything by Phillip K Dick With which character would you most like to have an affair? Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckenridge Which book would you like to see filmed? The Lord of the Rings (with all the new technology) Which book should have a sequel? Maurice by E.M. Forster Which school text did you most enjoy? The Good Earth by Pearl Buck Which book changed your life? The Penguin edition of Cicero’s Murder Trials, translated by Michael Grant Which book would you make compulsory reading? Animal Farm by George Orwell
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