The Book of Other People

Zadie Smith, David Mitchell, George Saunders, Colm Tóibín, Aleksandar Hemon, Nick Hornby, Hari Kunzru, Toby Litt, Chris Ware, Miranda July, Z.Z. Packer, Daniel Clowes, Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, A.M. Holmes, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Safran Foer


3.44 · 16 ratings · Published: 01 Nov 2007

The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell, George Saunders, Colm Tóibín, Aleksandar Hemon, Nick Hornby, Hari Kunzru, Toby Litt, Chris Ware, Miranda July, Z.Z. Packer, Daniel Clowes, Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, A.M. Holmes, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Safran Foer
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 Tóibín
Chris Ware, and more

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