Some things from the weekend
An interview done at the Hay Festival - which I didn’t go to this year.
Matthew Kneale: ‘Writing novels is just like cooking’ - Independent Online Edition > Features
I begin to understand where the man who wrote English Passengers came from. He smiles, and offers another explanation. “I love cooking, and writing is like that. You think, ‘Ah, I’ll put a bit of that in, now that’s right’. You have a feeling that somehow it will make a good meal.”
You’ll have to make up your own mind on this one I think:
My Book Deal Ruined My Life | The New York Observer
So forget the American dream! Getting a book deal seems more like a nightmare.
Some First Fiction is included in the guardian:
Separation and reconciliation | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Catherine Taylor on The Separate Heart and Other Stories | The Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy | Mirror, Mirror | The Pornographer of Vienna
The Separate Heart and Other Stories looks interesting - always nice to see a short story collection coming out and especially one getting positive reviews.
Some Crime Fiction gets looked at in The Observer
Headstones, hookers and Cuban hippos | Review | The Observer
Peter Guttridge on Twilight | The Unquiet | The Takedown | Dancing to ‘Almendra’ | I Predict a Riot
Oh and a list of books you’ve probably never heard of.
The Best Novels You’ve Never Read - Book Hunt 2007 — New York Magazine
Critics pick the best under-the-radar book of the past ten years or so.
I’m sure they was more but that’s all for now.
