How to Read a Novelist

Author:   John Freeman
Publisher:   Text Publishing
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9781921922688


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 August 2012
Format:   Paperback
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How to Read a Novelist is the ultimate booklovers book. 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, Kirin Desai, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom Wolfe and Peter Carey.  Interviews, essays and articles: Toni Morrison, 2004 Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005 Haruki Murakami, 2008 Richard Ford, 2007 Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 2006 Gunter Grass, 2007 Nadine Gordimer, 2007 David Foster Wallace, 2006 Khaled Hosseini, 2007 Doris Lessing, 2006 Hisham Matar, 2007 Siri Hustvedt & Paul Auster, 2008 Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005 Charles Frazier, 2006 Edmund White, 2005 Geraldine Brooks, 2008 Imre Kertész, 2004 Oliver Sacks, 2007 Kiran Desai, 2006 Philip Roth, 2006 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 2006 Dave Eggers, 2005 Vikram Chandra, 2007 Adrienne Rich, 2006 Tom Wolfe, 2004 Robert M. Pirsig, 2006 Elif Shafak, 2007 Peter Carey, 2008 Mo Yan, 2012 Donna Leon, 2005 John Updike, 2003 Seamus Heaney, 2006 Joyce Carol Oates, 2007 Paul Theroux, 2005 Don DeLillo, 2006 Louise Erdrich, 2008 Norman Mailer, 2007 James Wood, 2008 Margaret Atwood, 2006 Mohsin Hamid, 2007 Richard Powers, 2006 Alan Hollinghurst, 2004 Ian McEwan, 2005 Caryl Phillips, 2005 Wole Soyinka, 2007 Salman Rushdie, 2005 Jim Crace, 2007 Marilynne Robinson, 2012 Edmundo Paz Soldán, 2006 Amitav Ghosh, 2008 Ayu Utami, 2006 Frank McCourt, 2005 Sebastian Junger, 2006 Geoff Dyer, 2003 A. S. Byatt, 2005

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Author:   John Freeman
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9781921922688


ISBN 10:   1921922680
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 August 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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'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.


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John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson Pageturner Award. He is the editor-in-chief of Granta and lives in New York City. 

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