Hari Kunzru and others join the debate over Monica Ali’s Brick Road:
Art isn’t about promoting social cohesion, or cementing community relations. It’s about telling the truth as you see it, even if it annoys or offends some people. That’s called freedom of expression, and last time I checked we all thought it was quite a [...]
In this interview, published in The Guardian, Hermione Lee talks to Philip Roth on the publication of his latest novel, Exit Ghost.
Here’s a taster:
HL: Nathan Zuckerman, talking about Lonoff, tells Kliman that ‘writers can be shattered by writing’. Can you say more about what he means, and what, in particular, this might mean in [...]
What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
Before the creation of a text can begin I have to do a fair amount of work on research. This may involve visiting places to see what they look like, get a feeling for atmosphere, to see how people use their streets and squares, to see [...]
The novelist sits down with CBC interviewer, Evan Soloman:
By my age and stage you’re going to know a couple of things, and if you don’t know those things, where have you been all your life?
The essays Atwood talks about in this interview were published as Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on [...]
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