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A questionable voice – The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Having just finished Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, it was a pleasure to stumble upon an interview with the author (on his site, via Powells.com) where he discussed the process that led him to choose the narrative voice of the novel. I had tried variations of minimalism in the third person, with voices ranging fable [...]

Samuel Johnson is indignant – TMO meets Lydia Davis

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Lydia Davis is a rare talent. A writer whose work is challenging, stimulating, innovative, and, taken at face value, short. Very short – some stories in her collections span no more than two lines. Literature, though, (thankfully) is not judged on word counts, and the depth achieved so compactly by Davis is, no doubt, envied [...]