Industry news, Interview
November 28, 2008 | 2:16 PM | By Stuart Woods
- “A lopsided Sierpinski gasket.” David Foster Wallace discussing his then recently published breakthrough Infinite Jest, in a 1996 interview with radio host Michael Silverblatt.
- “No city I know, certainly not New York, has this variety of life, except perhaps London.” Novelist Amit Chaudhuri reflects on Mumbai, the city in which he was born.
- “For a writer, looking over your shoulder is worse than suicide.” Yassar Kemal, the great Turkish novelist, profiled in The Guardian.
- “For a kid, sex can be messy, horrible, embarrassing and third-rate.” Sex Pistols frontman John Lyndon on being Johnny Rotten, as stated in his recently reissued autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.
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