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13 July 2009 No Comment

Interview with BARBARA TRAPIDO

Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982) and Frankie and Stankie (2003). She has been shortlisted for major awards including the Whitbread.

She talks to us about her latest novel Sex and Stravinsky (May 2010), her inspirations and writing processes and being given the label of a “South African writer”. She also tells us a little about the novel she is ‘brooding’ on at the moment, which may involve a lady who uses ‘a pet baboon to deflea the dog’…

Part I

Part II

Interview with
JAMES SHAPIRO

James Shapiro is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of the award-winning 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. His most recent book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? explores the origins and various incarnations of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare’s plays.

Interview with HANIF KUREISHI

The celebrated novelist, screenwriter and playwright talks about his new Collected Stories, why writing can seem like a waste of time, the ‘blandness’ of multiculturalism, why he’s become a Marxist (‘in the last three days’) and how he liked Thatcher (because he ‘hated her’).

Articles

Open to the World: A Report on the London Review Bookshop’s World Literature Weekend (18 – 20 June 2010)

Get a Green Tie, Be a New Man: Guy Cuthbertson has bought a green tie. He tells us why it represents great artistic and literary expectations.

T.S. Eliot Prize Reading Report: At the British poetry world’s biggest annual prize, a strong shortlist including three former winners battle for the prestige and the cash.

‘Writ in Water’: Shelley, Byron, Keats and the Italian Sea

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