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Inteview with Julian Barnes

Anita Mathias — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:41:00 +0000

Julian Barnes, The Art of Fiction No. 165 Interviewed by Shusha Guppy The Paris Review Julian Barnes lives with his wife Pat Kavanagh, a literary agent, in an elegant house with a beautiful garden in north London. The long library where the interview was conducted is spacious and quiet. Overlooking the garden, it has floor-to-ceiling […]

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Interesting Margaret Atwood Interview

Anita Mathias — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:25:00 +0000

Margaret Atwood interview: ‘Go three days without water and you don’t have any human rights. Why? Because you’re dead’ With almost 50 books to her name, the formidably intelligent Margaret Atwood is a force to be reckoned with. But one year on from the Copenhagen Summit, not even her dark imagination could have predicted the […]

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An A.S. Byatt interview

Anita Mathias — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:52:00 +0000

A. S. Byatt, The Art of Fiction No. 168 Interviewed by Philip Hensher PRINT|TWITTER|FACEBOOK|MORE|View a manuscript page Here’s an interesting interview with A.S. Byatt, whose Angels and Insects I am currently reading with great pleasure. A. S. Byatt, The Art of Fiction No. 168 Interviewed by Philip Hensher The Paris Review A. S. Byatt lives […]

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Interview with Isak Dinesan

Anita Mathias — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:38:00 +0000

INTERVIEWER I suppose that you began to write seriously there? DINESEN I did begin to write [in Africa] . . . But earlier, I learned how to tell tales. For, you see, I had the perfect audience. White people can no longer listen to a tale recited. They fidget or become drowsy. But the natives […]

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