Monday, April 16, 2007

Erica Wagner's literary top ten

Author and literary editor of the London Times Erica Wagner took the Pulp Net quiz.

A couple of her answers:
My favourite opening line of a novel
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.

My favourite novel that no one else seems to have heard of
Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney.
Read the whole of Wagner's literary top ten.

Erica Wagner is the author of Seizure, a novel published in April 2007 by W.W. Norton. She is also the author of a book of short stories (Gravity) and a book about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (Ariel’s Gift,).

She was born in New York but lives in London, where she’s literary editor of the Times.

--Marshal Zeringue