{"id":3195,"date":"2015-11-08T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2015-11-09T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T01:20:35","slug":"an-evening-with-david-mitchell-and-lana-wachowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2015\/11\/an-evening-with-david-mitchell-and-lana-wachowski.html","title":{"rendered":"An evening with David Mitchell and Lana Wachowski"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lovely evening. Mitchell read from the first passage of Slade House<\/strong> (which I read a week or so ago, I’ll try to tell you about it soon!) and then he and Wachowski had a lovely conversation about art and immortality and writing between genres (as it were).<\/p>\n

There were quite a number of moments I wish I could have recorded, but here are the two I wrote down.<\/p>\n

On writing between genres, or being told your book should\/shouldn’t have something because you’re not in X genre:
\n“If a book needs a dragon, it should have a dragon.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On reading reviews: he said he certainly never reads the bad ones, because they’re so demoralizing and haunt you for months, but then he said he doesn’t read the good ones either:
\n“\u2026even the good ones are wasps at the picnic of a calm mind.”<\/em><\/p>\n

WOW what an image.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a huge fan of his books for a long time now (the other book I took with me to have signed was Black Swan Green<\/strong>, which is one of my all-time favorite books) and it was wonderful to hear Nathan (the first character in Slade House) read in his voice. He doesn’t have a straight-up English accent, there’s a bit of a lisping quality around his Rs that I wondered if originates from his time in Japan\/Asia\u2026 <\/p>\n

I can’t wait to see what he writes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lovely evening. Mitchell read from the first passage of Slade House (which I read a week or so ago, I’ll try to tell you about it soon!) and then he and Wachowski had a lovely conversation about art and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,41,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-live","category-random_quotes","category-recommending","category-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}