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Sixty seconds with Stav Sherez...
Stav Sherez lives in London. He is the author of the CWA shortlisted The Devil’s Playground and The Black Monastery. He spent five years as a music journalist, mainly for the cult music magazine Comes with a Smile. He has also written for the Daily Telegraph, The Catholic Herald and Zembla amongst others.
RTE: Describe yourself in a sentence?
Sherez: Virtual hermit, sometime hypochondriac.
RTE: What's the one record you'd take to a desert island?
Sherez: The Band - The Band
RTE: What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Sherez: Since I can remember I've always wanted to be a novelist.
RTE: Who's your oldest friend?
Sherez: My bookshelf.
RTE: If I ruled the world...
Sherez: I'd go crazy . . . it's in too much of a mess.
RTE: Which book do you wish you'd written?
Sherez: Blood Meridian.
RTE: What makes you angry?
Sherez: Too many things . . . but I'm working on that . . .
RTE: Name your five dream dinner party guests.
Sherez: William Burroughs . . . Bruce Springsteen . . . Jerry Garcia . . . William Vollmann . . . Alfred Hitchcock.
RTE: Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with?
Sherez: Myself.
RTE: What inspired you to start writing?
Sherez: Reading other books.
RTE: Where would you most like to live?
Sherez: The American south-west, the high desert country.
RTE: Sum up your latest book in no more than 12 words.
Sherez: Sun, sea and centipedes . . . cult murders in the Greek sun.
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