Writers Talk includes interviews with Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Toby Litt, Graham Swift, Matt Thorne, David Mitchell, AlanWarner, and Will Self.
"Is it a good time to be a writer in the time of The Da Vinci Code? It's not necessarily good time to be a literary writer."-Kate Atkinson
"The best novels allow us to rehearse the world ahead of us, to play out the battle before we fight it, to experience disaster before we encounter it, to practice grief before it flattens us. Narrative is useful. It confers advantages on us as a species." -Jim Crace
Why do writers write? How do they react to criticism of their work? What inspires them and how do go about working? Does fiction have any political, ethical or spiritual significance? Can we learn more about a book from its author? This collection of interviews with contemporary British novelists offers a fascinating insight into bestselling authors' views on fiction today; their influences and themes; readers and critics; why they write and their writing process; and provides a snapshot of the reality of living as a writer.
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Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists
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Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists
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Information
photography
134
readership
127–28
representation
of
female
characters
130,
136
responsibilities
of
the
writer
135
Works:
Last
Orders
130,
132,
135,
137,
138
The
Light
of
Day
127,
129,
130,
132
Out
of
This
World
133,
135
Shuttlecock
138
The
Sweetshop
Owner
136,
138
Tomorrow
130,
135,
136,
138
Waterland
127,
131,
132,
137,
138
Swift,
Jonathan
85,
189
Szasz,
Thomas
S.
117–19,
122,
123,
182
Ideology
and
Insanity:
Essays
on
the
Psychiatric
Dehumanization
of
Man
117
The
Myth
of
Psychiatry
118–19
Taylor,
Neil
143
Thatcher,
Margaret,
Prime
Minister
50,
54,
121
legacy
55
Thatcherism
viii,
116
Thatcherite
1980s,
era
viii,
50,
55,
124,
141
Thomson,
Rupert
144
Thorne
Matt
ix,
83,
86–7,
142–61
British
Council
New
Writing
6
143,
144
Cambridge
University
143,
153
Childhood
142,
143–4,
153
Contemporary
novelists
admired
144
Critic,
role
as
144,
146–7,
153
Early
writing
142–3
Favourite,
own
novels
152
Getting
published
143–4
Influences
143–4
Prince,
forthcoming
study
152
Radio
Bristol
143
reviews
and
criticism,
view
of
146
school
143–4,
153
St.
Andrews,
MLitt
in
Creative
Writing
142,
144,
153
teaching
creative
writing
153
working
method,
planning
fiction
144–5
Works:
All
Hail
the
New
Puritans
144,
145,
146,
147–8,
154,
160–1
Cherry
149,
152,
158–9,
160–1
Child
Star
145,
149–50,
151–2,
157–8,
161
Croatian
Nights
148
Dreaming
of
Strangers
146,
149,
152,
156–7
Eight
Minutes
Idle
149,
152,
153,
156
‘The
Honeymoon
Disease’
in
New
Writing
6
143,
144,
153
Picture
of
You
157
Privacy
152
Tourist
149,
154–5
Thorpe,
Adam
144
Trauma
(and
traumatological)
22,
31,
34,
123,
136–7,
138,
139,
140,
155–6,
157,
159,
179,
187,
188,
189–90
The
uncanny
33–
4,
66–7,
119,
190
Versace,
Gianni
120
Wallace,
David
Foster
144
Warner,
Alan
ix,
90,
162–81
beginning
as
a
novelist
162–3
beginning
a
novel
165–6
and
bookselling
170–1
on
English
writing
173
on
experiment
174
and
genre
fiction
170–1
influences
162,
163,
164,
172,
177
and
internationalism
173
and
literary
prizes
171
and
popular
culture
175–6
on
novelist’s
relation
to
society
174
and
readers
169
and
reading
178–9
relation
between
novel
and
world
172–3
relation
to
critics
168–9
relation
to
literary
tradition
164–5
researching
a
novel
166–7
and
Scottishness
175–6,
177–8
Works:
The
Man
Who
Walks
175,
178,
179
Morvern
Callar
163,
166,
167,
175,
176,
177,
179–80
The
Sopranos
169,
175,
177
These
Demented
Lands
175,
178,
179
Waters,
Sarah
83,
87
Waugh,
Evelyn
59,
122,
173,
189
Webber,
Andrew
Lloyd
49
Phantom
of
the
Opera
49
Weil,
Simone,
Gravity
and
Grace
50
Whitbread
Prize
4,
11–12,
57,
66,
171
judge
12
White,
Tony
148
Wilde,
Oscar,
The
Picture
of
Dorian
Grey
120,
123
The
Wizard
of
Oz
14
Wodehouse,
P.
G.
[Pelham
Grenville]
122
Woolf,
Virginia
6,
11,
73,
76,
77
To
the
Lighthouse
84
Wynne-Jones,
Diana
143
Young,
Neil
152
198
INDEX
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Kate Atkinson
- Pat Barker
- Jonathan Coe
- Jim Crace
- Toby Litt
- David Mitchell
- Will Self
- Graham Swift
- Matt Thorne
- Alan Warner
- Glossary
- About the Editors
- Index
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