Dear Writer in the Window

By Georgelle Hirliman

Book Overview

While trying to write her first novel, Georgelle Hirliman found herself suffering a severe case of writers block. To break free she installed herself in the window of a bookstore with her typewriter and invited passersby to ask her anything they wanted. She found that responding immediately to unexpected questions freed her to write, and gave her joy, so for ten years she sat in bookstore windows in New York, New Mexico and Oregon, answering with grace and wit such questions as: WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING? WHY ARE THE RICH SO RUDE? WHY IS LIFE SUCH A BITCH? WHY WONT MY PARENTS BUY ME A HORSE? HOW MANY ROACHES ARE THERE IN NEW YORK? WHY DO PEOPLE FOLLOW THE GRATEFUL DEAD? WHAT HAPPENS TO ERASED WORDS? WHY ME?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014017043X
• ISBN13: 9780140170436
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

The wit and wisdom of a quizzical sage

I came across this book on its first publication several years ago when I was in my early 20's. After reading it, I went back and bought the remaining books in the stack at the bookstore. I loved this book so much that I shared it with all of my friends. Georgelle is an amazing woman who plants herself in windows of bookstores across the nation to answer the most precarious questions posed by passerbys. Her responses are grounded in her experience, her truth and her love of life. I highly reccommend you keep this one in your library and refer to it often.