You won't be able to read this book just once. We all need community in order to do our best work, and this book will show you how some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century did just that. 'What a gift! Bandersnatch is a joy to read and helps dispel that dangerous myth that our greatest writers created in solitude. This tremendous new book about them is much anticipated and hugely welcome!' -Eric Metaxas, New York Times best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Miracles The painstaking investment of time, the careful scouring of archives and texts over years and years led to one of those rare scholarly achievements: a book. I don’t know how long her The Company They Keep took to write from concept to cover, but it was at least a couple of decades. 'The Inklings are about as important a group as ever existed in the literary world. Diana Pavlac Glyer is one of the latter kind of wordsmiths.

A brilliant and beautifully clear case study of iron sharpening iron.' -Michael Ward, coeditor of C. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Diana Pavlac Glyer (Goodreads Author) Reader Q&A To ask other readers questions about Bandersnatch, please sign up. In Bandersnatch, she shows us how they inspired, encouraged, refined, and opposed one another in the course of producing some of the greatest literature of the last one hundred years. 'No one knows more than Diana Pavlac Glyer about the internal workings of the Inklings. You'll learn what made these writers tick and more: inspired by their example, you'll discover how collaboration can help your own creative process and lead to genius breakthroughs in whatever work you do.

It shows how encouragement and criticism made all the difference in The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other books written by the members of this literary group. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing? How does creative collaboration enhance individual talent? And what can we learn from their example?Ĭomplemented with original illustrations by James Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford-and a seat at their table at the Eagle and Child pub. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. An inside look at the Inklings and their creative processĬ.

Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer