Monday, December 01, 2008
Efficiently Meeting Marilynne
Here is a long interview with the great Marilynne Robinson in the Paris Review. It's very good, though there's nothing in there that I didn't get from Marilynnne when we met and much that isn't in there that I did. (A good deal of this was not included in The Sunday Times piece for reasons of length.) But what is striking about the article is the author's statement in the introduction - 'For this interview, we met on six occasions over a five-month period.' Bloody hell. I spent half a day interviewing Marilynne. Sometimes I just feel so.... so... so... efficient.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Worn down by your constant fawning, I read Gilead. Extraordinary stuff, I have much to say about it (including the problem that the sheer relentless barrage of wisdom is a bit exhausting. After a while you want to go and watch Zoolander or something.)
ReplyDeleteOddly that's exactly what Frau Malty thought Brit, an over abundance of knowing all, I think were her words, but a very good read, praise indeed.
ReplyDeleteI read Housekeeping after your comments Bryan and while prose was quite beautiful, I found the story lacking a little something, only a little though. I'll read Gilead soon and then no doubt 'Home' too. After all, if MR has just the three to her name, it'd be daft not to.
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