“I always feel like as a reader, I always want to go in ready to be changed, ready to be transformed by what I’m reading, ready to be expanded. And that’s what I love about books, they work on you kind of like magic.” Madeline Miller’s novels, The Song of Achilles and Circe, keep working […]
“I start with the emotion. I don’t know what the story is. I don’t know who the characters are necessarily. I’m working on very little like, I’m thinking, ‘oh, well, the way this light looks through a window’, or something— very few details here and there. But I don’t know what happens in this story.” […]
Other books mentioned in this episode: To Paradise by Hanya YanigaharaThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Master by Colm ToibinThe Bostonians by Henry JamesSwann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia DavisThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe True Deceiver by Tove JanssonHow to Get Filthy […]
“There’s a gnawing sense among most people it seems to me in most countries I go to, that things aren’t going the right way.” Amy Gall talks with Mohsin Hamid about transience, imagination, and a love story.
The author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia discusses his choice of a narrative point of view.