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In a series of incisive interviews, Leonard S. Marcus engages thirteen master storytellers in spirited conversation about their life and work, providing inspiring reading for fantasy fans and future writers alike.
What kind of child were you? When did you decide you wanted to be a writer? Why do you write fantasy?
"Fantasy," writes Leonard S. Marcus, "is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable and to reveal our own ‘real' world in a fresh and truth-bearing light." Few have harnessed this power with the artistry, verve, and imagination of the authors encountered in this compelling book. How do they work their magic?
Finely nuanced and continually revealing, Leonard S. Marcus's interviews range widely over questions of literary craft and moral vision, as he asks thirteen noted fantasy authors about their pivotal life experiences, their literary influences and work routines, and their core beliefs about the place of fantasy in literature and in our lives.
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, ed. by Leonard S. Marcus, gathers in a Q&A format Marcus's discussions with 13 prominent fantasy writers, such as Lloyd Alexander, Susan Cooper, Brian Jacques and Ursula K. Le Guin. Photographs of rough drafts-often handwritten-and writers' libraries or desks, along with these probing interviews, make this a must for fantasy fans. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Bill Hockley
reviewed The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy on May 17, 2015
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
There's no great secrets here, but it's a charming look at the lives of many of the best children's fantasists of the twentieth century. I particularly appreciated hearing from Lloyd Alexander--whose personal life I've seldom seen discussed--and Brian Jacques, and any moments with LeGuin and Pratchett are worth cherishing. The questions could be repetitive, but whether it's the authors or Marcus's editing to thank, even answers to things as cliche as "What is your daily routine?" yield a variety of interesting tangents. Marcus in general comes across as an excellent interviewer; the one exception is his obsession with Tolkien, which some of his subjects clearly do not share. (Watching them dodge the question has a charm all of its own, though.) And I think there's a lot of value to showing people--particularly children--that authors are ordinary people with ordinary lives, who spend more hours than they'd like answering e-mail and fewer hiking through the Australian bush.
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