Although I have never read Nobelist Naipul, I am with him on Jane Austen,

I thought halfway through the book, ‘Here am I, a grown man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love life.’

In a nice piece of symmetric marketing over the weekend Naipul is interviewed in The Sunday Times

“After nearly 170 years, […]

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Quite a long interview with Gibson, whose latest novel Spook Country is set in the present. Cut-out quotes,

I have become convinced that it is silly to try to imagine futures these days.

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Well, as time has gone along, it has become more apparent to me that people don’t sit down in parliament and say, “What this […]

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