It took me a while to sort of feel those fiction writing muscels, you know, obviously had lost them. And very slowly it was a very painful process in the beginning. Once you get so accustomed to working with facts, with brute facts, and then shaping your narratives around them,. isaw already know what you're going to say in your knon fiction. While i'm writing a non fiction book, i know i can see the end. Here, i couldn't see anything at all. So i think it was a bit of a struggle,you know, going back to writing fiction.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by renowned essayist and novelist, Pankaj Mishra, to discuss his new novel, Run and Hide. Together they discuss the meaning of art and the novel, the Tibetan landscape and the Himalayas, nostalgia, and wood-panelled train compartments.
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