“All geeky about books“–my kind of people indeed.
When I interviewed Hawking just before the publication of A Brief History, he made it clear he thought physicists would soon have the theory of everything that would explain the entire history of matter. He also would not listen to me when I pointed out to him that he had simplified the thought of Wittgenstein to the point of rank inaccuracy. It was, in retrospect, the most shocking interview I have ever conducted.
Maud’s got some notes on the authorized Vonnegut biography.
How likely is it that your title will hit the NY Times Bestseller List?
In the American book market, that would require a teenage wizard or at least a conspiracy of crooked Jesuits.
Is it only a matter of time before some classic gets busted for plagiarism?
Canadians are honest and serious but slightly dull.
Ian McEwan writes about researching Atonement.
Forget the Man Booker: reputations are forged and ruined by the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, inaugurated in 1993 by the late Auberon Waugh of the Literary Review with the aim of stamping out gratuitous sexual interludes in serious works of fiction.