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Doug Dangler, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
Posted on | November 4, 2009 | 1,798 views |
Doug Dangler administers the OSU CSTW Writing Center and Digital Media and Writing programs, as well as hosting and producing Writers Talk, a tv, radio and Internet show about writing.
What are your five favorite books and why?
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hypnotic and seductive. You accept without question that good people float off into the wind.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Crazed, unreliable narrator with a lifetime’s worth of puzzles and false clues.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Stunning and moving.
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
I have not laughed harder at anything else.
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Tragic, funny, unforgettable. Plus, another opportunity to read a book and use an accent.
Who is your favorite character (villain or hero) in literature?
Villain: Humbert Humbert.
Hero: Oddly, this one is much harder. Maybe the Stainless Steel Rat?
What is the last book you’ve bought?
Something for my kids or for Writers Talk. I plan to buy Andrew Hudgins’ Shut Up, You’re Fine for my more easily offended relatives this year.
What “important book” have you not read?
Moby Dick. Sorry, my wife waded through it and her description turned me off. I feel special guilt because a former adviser of mine specialized in Melville. Shh, don’t tell Dr. R.
What book would you most want your kids to read? What would you want them NOT to read?
When they are older, I want them to read Kurt Vonnegut novels. His humanistic take on the madness and beauty of life is priceless. I would not want them to read most of the political trash on bestseller lists.
What classic novel was a disappointment?
I’ll probably have my doctorate revoked for this but I was bored silly by George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
What genre of literature do you prefer to read?
I usually read fiction, but I’ll read almost anything, and with the guests on Writers Talk, I do read anything now. The story and the writing are what pulls me in.
What magazines do you subscribe to?
New Yorker for the cartoons (oh, and the writing) and Newsweek so I know just how bad the world is getting.
To nominate an Ohio State faculty or staff person for a future Booktalk column, e-mail harris.587@osu.edu.
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November 25th, 2009 @ 2:39 am
I love the book Beloved and Angela’s Ashes. And I also enjoy reading fictional books. Looks like we have so much in common Doug.