Author Emily St. John Mandel's 5 Questions Never To Ask At A Bookstore Reading

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Comments

[flamingo dancer]

12:01 PM on 05/11/2011

My question would be: How do I go about getting an agent to get my book published? I really don't care about when you have kids or the royalties you get...

[John Rathe]

04:43 AM on 05/11/2011

Look on the bright side, if the worst part of your job is getting asked if you plan on having kids or not, you're ahead of most people. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

[Jake Thomas]

01:14 AM on 05/11/2011

Why, and I am over-generalizing are authors so full of pretense? Personally I think it is imperative I know intimate details about an writers private life.

[Bill Dodds]

05:37 PM on 05/10/2011

After a grade-school presentation I was asked: "Is that your real hair?"

I loved it, coming from a fourth-grader. It would have been a bit bizarre at a book reading.

That day I tugged on my hair to prove it was mine and added the color was "silver" not "gray."

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[ChrisRoberts]

04:59 PM on 05/10/2011

Questions for Emily St. John Mandel:

1). Did you make a conscious choice to operate outside the realm of reality?

2). Were you born in a state of confusion or raised that way? You know: nature vs nurture.

3). Are you so angry because nobody knows who you are or about your book that took two and a half years to write?

[John Dav Redux]

04:07 PM on 05/25/2011

I thought these were the questions you asked yourself in the mirror every morning.

[ChrisRoberts]

06:07 PM on 05/25/2011

No, you're confused...again. Number 2 easily applies to you and your offspring. Oh, that's right your sterile.

[Frances Partridge]

04:25 PM on 05/10/2011

I've never heard questions like these or even close to them except for the next book coming out question. Usually they are questions like where do you get your ideas. And people always want to know about whether you write in the morning or evening, do you write on paper with pencil or directly on a computer. The one about having kids floors me.

[O K Ali]

03:41 PM on 05/10/2011

I've never been to a bookstore reading, but, wow. Just, wow.

[Lev Raphael]

03:26 PM on 05/10/2011

I agree with the list, and people can ask much more intrusive and annoying questions than those:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lev-raphael/bookstore-bingo-authors_b_850874.html