The Best Place for You to Stay is Ultimately a Book

By hans, 22 februari 2022

Twenty-seven stories from the Writers’ Hotel

The twenty-seven stories included in this book form the heart of a project that was begun during the long lockdown in the winter of 2020-21) with the working title Sheltering in the Writers’ Hotel.

Bookshops had been closed for months and for the authors there were no tours, no readings, no signings, no national Book Ball, no live awards ceremonies… The writers stayed away from the Ambassade Hotel and we missed them.

After all, what is a writers’ hotel without writers? pen without ink? This is how the idea came about to invite one author each week over six months to stay at the Ambassade Hotel and describe their writing lives at that time.

Throughout the period May to November 2021, the newspaper Het Parool published the Writers’ Hotel columns in its weekly Arts Section

Contents

Introduction
Arnon Grunberg
Alma Mathijsen
Esther Verhoef
Jessica Durlacher
Thomas Heerma van Voss
Annejet van der Zijl
Daan Heerma van Voss
Hanna Bervoets
Aaf Brandt Corstius
Adriaan van Dis
Annelies Verbeke
Marente de Moor
Auke Hulst
Susan Smit
Bette Westera
Maartje Wortel
Tom Lanoye
Tommy Wieringa
Pieter Waterdrinker
Jan Mulder
Ronald Giphart
lan Buruma
Roxane van Iperen
Abdelkader Benali
Jeroen Thijssen
Stine Jensen
Marjolijn de Cocq
Acknowledgements
Biographies
In Collaboration With

Editorial: copy editors at the newspaper Het Parool and Marte Meijs

Original cover photo: RonaId Tilleman

Photography: Jasmine Gunther, Ireen Wyers and Adinda Bekema

Design cover and interior: Erik Thé, www.erikthedesign.com

Translation: Paul Evans

Copyediting: Vimbai Shire

ISBN 9789493228863

NUR 325

www.samsarabooks.com

This project came about thanks to the collaboration of:

The following companies in the Ambassade Group were involved in this project: