How to Read a Novelist

Description

John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as inventor, John Updike as relationship advisor and Geoff Dyer as England's hippest middle-aged novelist, among many others including Philip Roth, Siri Hustevdt, Doris Lessing, Kiran Desai, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom Wolfe and Peter Carey. How to Read a Novelist is the ultimate booklover's book.

John Freeman is the author of Shrinking the World: The 4,000-Year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives.

'If only I had this book at the start of my career - what falls and confusion I would have been spared - a gift for readers and for writers.' - Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.