How to Read a Novelist
Conversations with Writers
John Freeman
- For
- the
- last
- fifteen
- years,
- if
- a
- novel
- was
- published,
- John
- Freeman
- has
- been
- there
- to
- greet
- it.
- As
- a
- critic
- for
- more
- than
- two
- hundred
- newspapers
- worldwide,
- he
- has
- reviewed
- thousands
- of
- books
- and
- interviewed
- scores
- of
- writers,
- and
- in
- How
- to
- Read
- a
- Novelist,
- he
- shares
- with
- us
- what
- he
- has
- learned.From
- such
- international
- stars
- as
- Doris
- Lessing,
- Haruki
- Murakami,
- Salman
- Rushdie
- and
- Mo
- Yan;
- to
- British
- talents
- including
- Ian
- McEwan,
- Jim
- Crace,
- A.
- S.
- Byatt
- and
- Alan
- Hollinghurst;
- American
- masters
- such
- as
- Don
- DeLillo*,*
- Norman
- Mailer,
- Toni
- Morrison
- and
- Philip
- Roth;
- to
- the
- new
- guard
- of
- Jennifer
- Egan,
- Junot
- Díaz,
- Dave
- Eggers
- and
- Jonathan
- Franzen
- –
- Freeman
- has
- talked
- to
- everyone.How
- to
- Read
- a
- Novelist
- is
- essential
- reading
- for
- every
- aspiring
- writer
- and
- engaged
- reader;
- the
- perfect
- companion
- for
- anyone
- who's
- ever
- curled
- up
- with
- a
- novel
- and
- wanted
- to
- know
- a
- bit
- more
- about
- the
- person
- who
- made
- that
- moment possible.
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