I actually dislike very few people – Trump is one of them.
“The novelist’s rabbit is the truth—about life, about human character, about himself and therefore by extension, it is to be hoped, about other people. He is convinced that this is all knowable, can be described, can be recorded, by a person sufficiently dedicated to describing and recording, can be caught in a net of narration. . . . . But what, seriously, was accomplished by these writers [Maxwell has just mentioned Turgenev, Lawrence, Woolf and Forster] or can the abstract dummy novelist I have been describing hope to accomplish? Not life, of course; not the real thing; not children and roses; but only a facsimile that is called literature.”
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At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
Jantar Publishing Q & A
At Radio Prague International Ian Willoughby has a Q & A with Michael Tate on Czech roots, Prague -- and the serendipitous birth of Jantar Publishing.
Several Jantar titles are under review at the complete review -- e.g. Jan Křesadlo's GraveLarks -- and I certainly expect to get to more.
Bára Dočkalová Q & A
At Radio Prague International Danny Bate has a Q & A with the Magnesia Litera prize winner (in the category for children and young people), in “We need to be willing to play, and to be curious”: Award-winning author Bára Dočkalová on writing Czech and teaching English.
Richard Fidler's life in Conversations — from comedy rebel to beloved Australian interviewer
Before he became one of Australia's most beloved interviewers, Richard Fidler was a curious child with an insatiable appetite to understand the forces that shaped history and humanity.
That hunger and self-proclaimed "nerdy curiosity" has become a trademark of Fidler’s four-decade-long career, from his days as a satirical performer to his role as a broadcaster.
"As a kid, I always wanted to know how my tiny speck of a life fitted into the great stream of events and people,"he said.
"I've been working on that ever since, really."
