The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety
My earliest reading memory
The Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem were my first real loves; I was five. They left me with a lifelong yearning for punch made from crab apples., by Diana Wynne Jones. She is, I think, one of the finest writers for children; her books are oxygenated by her refusal to talk down to them. You could recognise her voice at 50 paces.
I have no real memory of not hoping to be a writer; as soon as I understood that books were not grown from orchards of papery trees, it was what I wanted. ButThe book or author I came back to’s Beloved. I returned to it as an adult; it’s my vote for the true great American novel.. It’s not as consistent as the Cromwell trilogy, but the highs are even higher.
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