If you could meet one deceased literary figure, who would that be? What would you ask? What would you say, and why? In "AfterWord: Conjuring the Literary Dead," eighteen distinguished authors respond to this challenge by creating imagined conversations with a constellation of British and American authors, from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen to Samuel Beckett to Edith Wharton. Each chapter embarks on an intellectual, emotional, and often humorous voyage as the layers of time are peeled away, letting readers experience authors as they really were in their own era or, on occasion, transported...
If you could meet one deceased literary figure, who would that be? What would you ask? What would you say, and why? In "AfterWord: Conjuring the L...