100 writers in a box

 

 

    Just arrived, the new postcard collection One Hundred Writers in One Box: Postcards from Penguin Modern Classics. "From Beckett to Camus, Kafka to Nabokov, Updike to Woolf, here are the greatest writers from the last century, who have inspired generations of readers."

 

 

 

    Some of these have already been put aside to be used as bookmarks or to be pinned up where I can see them, but I've had helpful suggestions from family members as to what else to do with them such as using them as literary Pokemon cards, assigning each author various 'powers' and pitting them against one another in teams, e.g. the magic realists v. the absurdists, the 'Great American' novelists v. the European 'icons'.

 

 

    Here's a likely candidate to lead a team: Robertson Davies.

 

    More examples from the collection soon.

Comments

[Thomas at My Porch]

Oh, I might need this go next to other box of Penguin postcards. I wonder if this set will be as hard to get in the US as the other one. Fingers crossed.

[B R Wombat]

Dear old Robertson Davies, captain of the Bearded Canadians team. I hesitate to suggest who the other members might be.

[Mr Cornflower]

How about this chap:

http://tgr.ph/n0ElvP

[Rhys]

Oh...........I've just followed your links and bought one !!!

And to try and repay the favour can I tell you that there is on the radio this afternoon and adaptation of an Elizabeth Bowen novel that I happen to be reading called The Heat of the Day. An adaptation from a screenplay by Harold Pinter.....(doesn't get five stars ...but still !!!)

[B R Wombat]

As Evelyn Waugh has it "Goodness, how sad!"

[Cornflower]

Thanks so much, Rhys!