With Child

Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5095-3821-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

With a foreword by Lee Child.

Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm, amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow writers like Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen.

But Martin also reaches out to Child’s legion of readers in America and around the world. He tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home invasion scene in Make Me; he goes up a mountain in Montana in search of the only reader who thinks Reacher is a “lightweight”; and he talks to obsessive fans from Europe to South Africa who find salvation or consolation in the colossal form of Jack Reacher.

This compelling account of life on the road with Lee Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Andy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Child, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Before: ‘A Lot of Writers are Like That, They Start with Dialogue’ Fall

1 The Gorgeous Feeling

2 The Dearth of the Author

3 Before Midnight

4 Like a Cockroach

5 The Zipless Fuck

6 Mysterious

7 The Pressure Keeps Building

8 I’m not an Author

9 Having an Orgasm, Standing Up

10 Stephen King is Shocked

11 A Frustratingly One-Way Telephone Conversation (Except Just at the End)

12 Attempt at an Exhaustive Description of People at Barnes & Noble Who were Having their Photographs taken with Lee Child

13 The Deranged, Obsessive Fan

14 Lunch with Lydia Lair

15 On Tour with Lee Child: Publisher’s Schedule

16 Comment on that ‘Gruelling’ Publicity Schedule

17 A Novel without Reacher

18 Lee Child’s Ultimate Nightmare

19 Inside Fort Z

20 In the Four Seasons, Washington DC

21 Where did you get the Folding Toothbrush from?

22 Precursors of Reacher

23 How to Say ‘Said’

24 Is Make me Funny?

25 Reacher The Reader

26 Breakfast, Sunday, 27 September 2015

27 A Binary Praxis of Antagonistic Reciprocity

28 Back to School

29 Can I Help you?

30 Cup of Tea, With a Side Order of Napkin

31 ‘You’re not Going to Believe this, But …’

32 Jouïssance

33 On the First Chapter of Lee Child’s Make me

34 His Dying wish Winter

35 Carl (1)

36 Elsa (The Opposite of the Toothbrush)

37 The Man who Refused to Read Make me

38 Mamma Mia! (× 5)

39 Jack Reacher vs Lisbeth Salander

40 Carl (2)

41 Misery

42 Book Ends

43 Sam

44 Clueless

45 Karina

46 Zeno and the Art of the Head-Butt

47 Reacher vs West Germany

48 But who is Going to Play Lee Child in the Movie?

49 Two New York Scenes, On the Same Day, Containing Antithetical Reactions to Lee Child

50 Ennui

51 The Woman who Hated Reacher

52 Tom

53 Psychosocial Acceleration Theory (Never go back)

54 While Reacher Sleeps

55 Fanmail Spring

56 The Fortune Cookie

57 Fear and Firearms in Las Vegas

58 The Letters Pages of the London Review of Books

59 A Blonde Walks through the Door with a Gun in her Hand

60 The End of that Conversation, In which Lee Compares himself to Homer

61 Tweets

62 300 Pages, One Insight

63 The Function of Crime

64 Crimethrillergirl

65 The End of the Novel

After: In Case you Wanted to know What Happened to that Romance with Chang

Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Andy Martin is the author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me. He writes for The Independent and The New York Times and teaches at the University of Cambridge. His book on surfing, Walking on Water, is a cult classic