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Jeffrey Eugenides on Adam Thirlwell
Jeffrey Eugenides
‘The playfulness of the language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material.’
Jekwu Anyaegbuna | Interview
Jekwu Anyaegbuna
‘I think it would be counterproductive for me to think too much about readers while producing a piece of fiction because the enjoyment of it varies from one person to another – and it’s impossible to satisfy everybody.’
Jesse Ball | Interview
Jesse Ball
‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’
John Barth | Interview
John Barth
‘Everything we do in art is likely to turn out to be either prophecy or exorcism, whatever its other intentions.’
John Barth | Podcast
John Barth
John Barth discusses discovering William Faulkner and Lawrence Sterne as a student, the parallels between writing and arranging music, what happened to postmodernism and waiting for the muse to call.
Kettly Mars | Best Untranslated Writers
Edwidge Danticat
‘Ms Mars is a singularly gifted writer, who with each new work delves more profoundly into themes that are both timely and essential.’
Mark Crick | Interview
Mark Crick
Mark Crick on the DIY tips of the world’s greatest novelists, how to inhabit another writer’s voice and why there is nothing more erotic than painting.
Mark Doten | Five Things Right Now
Mark Doten
‘Is there any doubt that Proust would have been obsessed with the Internet?’
Mark Gevisser and Pwaangulongii Dauod In Conversation
Pwaangulongii Dauod
Mark Gevisser and Pwaangulongii Dauod discuss Africa’s LGBTI communities, an experience of violent sexual repression, and Afro-Modernity.
Music and Memory
Various Contributors
‘There was a time when I discovered that the best way to remember things was with the accompaniment of very loud music.’
NoViolet Bulawayo | Interview
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘My love affair with books had turned into a marriage.’
